All Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Beings
- The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Encircle
- Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second… Community
- Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Age
- In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why… Analysis
- You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. Experience
- We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. All
- The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. Able
- Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins… Alone
- Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Blood
- He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. Belief
- It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. Cold
- Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Ability
- Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. Affinity
- The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Inspirational
- Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. Driven
- Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world. Energy
- This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the… All
- Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… All
- Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… Absorbed
- Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us,… Complete
- Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him. Age
- We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the… Ago
- To love is to approach each other center to center. Approach
- Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also,… Appears