Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Itself Residue Tangible Universe Vast Way Whole
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ability Duty Exist Limit Process Women
Man 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 CHARDIN

Ascending Biology Chemistry Geology Man Physics Understand
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Life Nothing Person Resist Smile
This 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 CHARDIN

Essential Mysticism Name God Note Ourselves Penesterate Utter
At 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 CHARDIN

All Dissociate Extreme Matter Most Only Our Star State Survive Temperature
For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Action Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Country Not Pull Root Them Up
There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Absolute Enter Entirely Fact Field Into Represent Singular Sole Something Thought Unique
Ever 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 CHARDIN

Consequently Contact Each Encroachment Guard Intelligent Need Other
I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Destroy Disillusioned Grandfather Ironic Person Seem Smile Triumphant
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

Anyway Cold Go Have Matter Through Wade Warm Water
At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Creation Day Dream Every Fragment Heart One Organic Principal Treasure Will
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Blood Energy Evolution Love Reserve Sacred Spiritual
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

After All Each Other Exist Forever One Recreate Suffer Together
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Analyze Difficult Final Good Happen Itself Question Some Transmute
The 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 CHARDIN

East Greatness Have Been Incomparable Lie None Passion Religion Second Vibrate
These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Awareness Expectation Great Presence Seem
The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Directly God History Kingdom One Reunion
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Centre Creator Curious Homogeneous Include Man Object Representation Science Succeed Thing Universe
When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Come Compelettlym Domination Death God Guidance Ourselves Surrender When
No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Human Molecule Produce Substance Universe
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Adventure Conquest Devote Universe Discover Love Perpetual Survive
Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Happy Matter Personal Taste
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Behind Console Himself Individual Leave May Offspring Pass Through Work

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