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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
