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
thinking years unbroken
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself
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.
reality matter spirit
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
taken men two
Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.
spiritual process spiritual-life
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
thinking unity layers
And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.
mean burning layers
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers
our-actions action milieu
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
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.
two world summit
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
men soul progress
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.
death overcoming finding-god
You must overcome death by finding God in it.
empowering partners possession
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.