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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French
Philosopher
Born:
May 1
,
1881
Died:
Apr 10
,
1955
God
Love
Man
Me
Universe
World
Related authors:
Albert Camus
Blaise Pascal
Henri Bergson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Michel de Montaigne
Montesquieu
Simone Weil
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nature
Eyes
Backwards
Past
Beginning
Else
Our
Everything
We Cannot
Prolonged
Critical
Woven
Threads
Something
Something Else
Absolute
Indivisible
Scientifically
Endless
Anything
Cannot
Which
Speaking
Grasp
We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world - not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Man
Science
World
Logical
Thought
Power
Lesson
Incredible
Earth
Say
Carry
Must
Tells
Born
Entirely
More
Only
Accept
Conclusion
Scientists
His
Lecture
Than
Us
Flesh
Who
Bones
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life
Me
Respect
First
Energy
Profit
Unity
Our
Strikes
Distaste
Kind
Hunting
Pursuit
Sacredness
Buddhist
Feel
Devoid
Also
Because
End
Escape
Effort
Expenditure
Illusory
Hare
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Will
Paris
Up
Them
Roots
Pull
Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life
Faith
Time
Me
Walk
Christ
Universe
Assurance
Press
Though
Must
Seeing
Shadows
More
Feel
Term
Am
Existence
Same
Same Time
Anyone
Much
Certain
Special
Ever
Believing
Imagine
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Humanity
Will
Our
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Ancestors
Complexity
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
More
Advance
Advancing
Towards
Know
Greater
Always
How
Still
Line
Continue
Years
Condition
Same
Keep
Ever
Consciousness
It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Time
Me
Become
Strangers
Way
Cosmic
Seems
More
Environment
Terrestrial
Another
Up
Same
Gradually
Same Time
Currents
Psychologically
Autonomous
Against
Themselves
Incapable
Richer
Beings
Shut
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Work
Man
Intelligence
Mind
Action
Saved
Speed
Machine
Relieved
Find
About
Abruptly
Part
Perfecting
Bound
Devices
Himself
Idleness
Material
His
Hands
Anxieties
Cannot
Which
Creating
Toil
Help
Large
Large Part
Compelled
When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Faith
Words
Awareness
Christianity
Other
Types
Once
Rise
Superiority
More
Over
Identified
Said
Done
In Other Words
Which
Unifying
Certain
Ever
Presence
Universal
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nature
Our
Recognize
Tendency
Know
Always
Been
Discover
Deep
Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Technology
World
Nothing
Earth
Characteristic
Exactly
Invading
Invasion
More
Like
Welcomes
Tide
Surely
Times
Than
Modern
Human
Irresistible
Modern Times
Whether
Places
Forms
Social
Mechanism
Activity
I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Myself
Game
Science
Christ
Matters
Conviction
Too
Say
Possessed
Running
Find
All Things
Able
More
Only
Through
Mystical
Absorb
True
Look
Am
Caught
Up
Get
Little
Much
Really
Things
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Matter
Universe
More
Stuff
Concentrated
Becoming
Historically
Goes
Forms
Organized
Ever
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Physics
Judge
Enough
Relativity
Able
Am
Limits
Mathematician
Either
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Today
Thought
Long
Before
Energy
Earth
Must
Parallel
Cosmic
Been
Which
Produced
Awakening
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Me
Reality
Interior
Nothing
Back
Characteristic
Some
Seems
More
Demand
Economy
Go
However
Familiar
Than
Childhood
Irresistible
Far
Unique
Appetite
Necessary
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life
God
Myself
Me
My Life
Thanks
Difficulty
Addressing
Someone
Habit
Never
Know
Supreme
Sort
Always
Least
Been
Any
Experienced
Which
Ingrained
Moment
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Needs
Religion
Man
Power
Duty
Evolution
More
He
Soon
Himself
Becomes
Said
His
Survive
Man Needs
Done
To Survive
Explicitly
Ever
Conscious
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Future
Religion
Knowledge
Science
Past
Complete
Evolution
Embrace
Faces
Only
Contemplate
Past And Future
Same
Which
Them
Fulfil
Act
Measure
Phases
Two
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
Say
Recognize
Evolution
Through
Attainable
He
Term
Implicitly
Force
Himself
Becomes
Motive
Process
Whole
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God
Religion
Man
Related
Earth
Born
Individual
Mankind
Whole
Need
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
People
Unity
Earth
Synthesis
Paradoxical
Spirit
Individuals
Mankind
Whole
Element
Multitude
Utopian
Necessary
Biologically
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Work
Humanity
Creation
Every
Side
Still
Surround
Gradual
Which
Centre
Sketches
Us
Successive
Sapiens
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Friendship
You
Together
Impossible
Thought
Humiliating
Further
Sphere
Boon
Distressing
Able
Point
Never
Suppose
Beyond
Return
How
Leaving
Go
Began
Than
Where
Placed
Apart
Certain
Certain Point
Ever
Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Elsewhere
Thrown
Clearly
Surely
Reveals
Spray
Wake
Left
Up
Behind
Just
Movement
Mankind
Forward
March
I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life
Spiritual
Book
Long
Preaching
Nothing
Down
Living
Finally
Philosophy
Possible
Minimum
Spiritual Life
Mystical
Write
Put
Simply
Call
Sort
Am
Been
Esoteric
Being
Decided
Mean
Explicit
Teaching
Milieu
Include
Careful
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