Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the Omega Pointand developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth1 May 1881
CountryFrance
earth tasks world
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
philosophy religion draws
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
perception ordinary-things life-is
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
goal enough should
Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
science men mind
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.
profound way evolution
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
reflection thinking ideas
The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.
hands yield soul
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.
love love-is approach
To love is to approach each other center to center.
virtue creation incarnation
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
long-ago world levels
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.
joints products knows
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
religious problem failing
Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
christian believe long
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.