Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes about Reality

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.

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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Blessed, Reality, Matter

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.66, Рипол Классик

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Believe, Reality, Arms

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Moving, Reality, Serenity

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Reality, Matter, Spirit

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1971). “Human energy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science, Reality, Psychics

"The Heart of Matter". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1950.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Reality, Fragility, Facts

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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Wine, Reality, Suffering

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”