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
mind world weight
The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.
ascent
Everything that rises must converge.
moving matter spirit
Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
lying audacity life-is
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
world may today
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.
creation collaborators
We are collaborators in creation.
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.
life love-is truth-is
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
believe men thinking
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
heart paint brushes
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
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.
passion zest giving
The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.
birthday growing-up getting-older
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
moving reality serenity
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.