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.
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.
unity splits matter
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
reality matter spirit
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
moving matter spirit
Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
blessed reality matter
Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.
duty limits men proceed though women
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
thinking psychics woven
No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.
doe world god-love
God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?
becoming capable
Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.
real mean passion
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
wine reality suffering
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.
faces difficult staring
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
technology connections tasks
We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.