Pierre Teilhard de Chardin quotes

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest, philosopher, and paleontologist, renowned for his attempts to reconcile science and religion. Through his writings, he explored the evolution of humanity and the universe from both scientific and spiritual perspectives. He is remembered for introducing profound concepts such as the Omega Point, envisioning the ultimate unity of human consciousness. Here are 72 of his quotes:

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All the communions of a life-time are one communion. All the communions of all men now living are one communion. All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.

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At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love 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. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

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In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

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The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form.... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin