Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

11 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Teilhard de Chardin’s eleven short passages blend scientific curiosity with spiritual wonder. They sketch a vision of mind that stretches from personal insight to collective evolution, perfect for a quick yet inspiring read.

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There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between…

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“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between…

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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces…

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By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our…

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The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom…

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My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and…

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I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which…

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Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along…

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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to…

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The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single…

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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

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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…

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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,…

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“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…

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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation…

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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,…

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The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.”

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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

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It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building…

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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking…

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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

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