The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of… — 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
