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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French Philosopher

Born: May 1, 1881

Died: Apr 10, 1955

God Love Man Me Universe World

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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