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
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.
men bud complicated
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.
spring night men
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
men past communion
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.
men mirrors mind
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.
moving men views
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
men essence progress
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
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.
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.
science men mind
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.
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
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.