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
stars matter molecules
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
distance thinking profound
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.
hands giving generations
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
fire important power-of-love
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
community together research
Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.
moving men views
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
spiritual journey may
We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
ideas manifest generator
More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.
giving-up passion order
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.
writing clothes needs
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.
love life would-be
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
love-is mysterious force
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.
lying verbs whole-life
The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
life water matter
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.