Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

The death of the materially exhausted planet; the split of the noosphere, divided on the form to be given to its unity; and simultaneously (endowing the event with all its significance and with all its value) the liberation of that percentage of the universe which, across time, space and evil, will have succeeded in laboriously synthesising itself to the very end.
Not an indefinite progress, which is an hypothesis contradicted by the convergent nature of noogenesis, but an ecstasy transcending the dimensions and the framework of the visible universe.

If <small>THIS</small> book is to be properly understood, it must be read not as a work on metaphysics, still less as a... theological essay, but purely and simply as a scientific treatise.

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

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

In the "Alexandrian" explanation described above, the multiple from which evolution emerges is both secondary and sinful from its origin: it represents in fact (an idea that smacks of Manicheanism and the Hindu metaphysical systems) broken and pulverized unity. Starting from a very much more modern and completely different point of view, let us assert, as our original postulate, that, the multiple (that is, non-being, if taken in the pure state) being the only rational form of a creatable (creabile) nothingness, the creative act is comprehensible only as a gradual process of arrangement and unification, which amounts to accepting that to create is to unite. And, indeed, there is nothing to prevent our holding that union creates. To the objection that union presupposes already existing elements, I shall answer that physics has just shown us (in the case of mass) that experientially (and for all the protests of "common sense") the moving object exists only as the product of its motion.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

La única religión aceptable para el hombre es la que le enseñará ante todo, a conocer, amar y servir apasionadamente al Universo del cual es el elemento más importante.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

Discontinuity in continuity: that is how... the birth of thought, like that of life, presents... and defines itself.

Personally, I stick to my idea that we are watching the birth, more than the death, of a World. The scandal for you, is that England and France should have come to this tragedy because they have sincerely tried the road of peace. But did they not precisely make a mistake on the true meaning of "peace"? Peace cannot mean anything but a HIGHER PROCESS OF CONQUEST. ... The world is bound to belong to its most active elements. ... Just now, the Germans deserve to win because, however bad or mixed is their spirit, they have more spirit than the rest of the world. It is easy to criticize and despise the fifth column. But no spiritual aims or energy will ever succeed, or even deserve to succeed, unless it is able to spread and keep spreading a fifth column.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience

In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.

Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.