Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

About Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere.
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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 them by what is deepest in themselves.

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So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existen...

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Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you w...

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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

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Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

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It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as America knows how to develop the sense of the earth at the same time as her sense of liberty." [Written from Pekin...

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(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a curve that all lines must fol...

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I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

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The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, ...

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

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It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

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Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet...

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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 those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

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In the end, only the truth will survive.

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It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

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Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

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Author Bio

  • NamePierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • DescriptionFrench philosopher and Jesuit priest
  • BornMay 1, 1881
  • DiedApril 10, 1940
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionTheologian; Paleontologist; Archaeologist; Prehistorian; Philosopher; Writer; Anthropologist
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Legion Of Honour