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
past age earth
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
evolution process stem
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.
spiritual fashion wall
Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.
god faith peace
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
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.
mind impossible settings
Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.
inspirational success teamwork
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
love together elements
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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.
life love-is finals
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
ocean water venture
Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.
spiritual human-experience humans
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
spiritual love-is blood
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
isolation blind alleys
Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.