Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
