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
friendship funny-friend cute-best-friend
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ascent
Everything that rises must converge.
our-actions action milieu
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
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.
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.
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.