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Category: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Stars, Character, Universe

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Day, Great, Passion

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

People, Good People

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Men, Limits, Men And Women

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

Good, Fear, Truth

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Nature, History, Science

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Work, Man, Mind

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Enjoy, Christian, Escape

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Man, View, Point Of View

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

Transformation, World, Know

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Music, Beauty, Great

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is a sacred reserve of energy it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Spiritual, Love Is