Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMorality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove 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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIt doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEver since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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 CHARDINFor ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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 CHARDINAt the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIn the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIt cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN