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
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that… — 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