There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between… — 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
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between… — 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
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
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and… — 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
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single… — 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
