65 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes for You to Enjoy

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French Philosopher

Born: May 1, 1881

Died: Apr 10, 1955

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Spiritual Experience Spiritual Beings Spiritual Experience Having Human Human Beings Human Experience Beings

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we 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 Chardin

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

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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

Good People Will Good People Bad Things Analysis Final Respond Bad Some Something Longer How Questions Itself Very Intend Different Happen Happened Asking Now Why Things Things Happen

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - 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

Being happy is a matter of personal taste. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Happy Matter Personal Taste Being Being Happy

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

Universe Joint Observed Observer Know Product

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

You Together Will Other Recreate Exist Forever After Each Suffer

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Happy Words Unhappy Mind Whatever Own Live Consists Admit More Self True Feel Longer Importance Making Making Up Up Repose Being Which Being Happy Mean Meaning Meaning Of Usual

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Be Happy Happy Will First Our Our Lives Ourselves Must Follow Remain Tendency Impetus Primarily New Look React Least Causes Line Provide Either Against Us Activities Lives Resistance External

I 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

Thoughts Man Citizen Earth Finally Would Finds Above Rises Having Countries Categories Like Himself Child Little Who Express

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death Only Physically Toward Acceptable Passage Condition Represents Union Necessary

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought... The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man Confused Old Thought Feeling Beginning Sense Stars Must Born Cosmic Give More More Or Less Facing Soon Name Himself Been Existence Affinity Forest Psychologically Which Us Sea Less Apparently Binds Found

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Death God Surrender Guidance Enter Ourselves Must Totally Absolute Since Him Return Makes Domination Us

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