Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMorality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINFrom a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINRegarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINDeep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINSo long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIf we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThis note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIn the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThere are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThrough fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN