World Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

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

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

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

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