Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes - Page 2

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

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.

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

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

We are collaborators in creation.

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.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

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.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

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.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

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.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.