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Life Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- 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…
- The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
- It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
- Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the…
- 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…
- This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.
- In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not…
- All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present,…
- What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
- Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception…
- The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
- If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically…
- A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
- The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
- Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle