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
duty limits men proceed though women
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
friendship funny-friend cute-best-friend
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
agency sensual vision
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
asking-why people different
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
blessed reality matter
Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.
boredom disrespect world
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.
passion way-forward soul
The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.
unity age wish
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.
suicide choices humanity
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
isolation blind alleys
Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
science common evolution
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
creation collaborators
We are collaborators in creation.
psychics long depth
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.
empowering partners possession
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.