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
needs whole-truth whole
Faith has need of the whole truth.
dog pet doe
The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
joy evidence-of-god evidence
Joy is the sheer evidence of God.
unity splits matter
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
heart self gears
Humankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalization.
expression atoms energy
Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.
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 religious stress
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".
crush dream effort
The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?
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.
dream vision world
This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.
joints products knows
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
men essence progress
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
christian believe long
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.