The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLong before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEveryone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHistorically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThere is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINReligion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMan can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHe that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMy roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN