The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it… — 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
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 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
The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — 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
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops:… — 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
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
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 Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
