86 result(s) for Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Quotes.
"No sooner had I begun to read than I found myself consumed by a feeling of religious fright, abjectness and delight - something akin to Christian fear."
"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us."
"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."
"The world is a book. He who does not travel reads only a page."
"Scientists and mystics will be the logicians of tomorrow."
"There will come a day when the dream of life comes to an end and I find myself standing before God. On that day you will know who I am - from that moment on you will be my friend."
"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."
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"The only task worthy of our efforts is the pursuit of the unknown."
"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
"By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see."
"There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe."
"The fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon the emergence of a new faith in the future."
"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being."
"Life is a marathon, and the most meaningful way to run it is to lead as many people along with you as you can."
"The only way to move is to advance along with the world."
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one that we preach but do not practice, and another that we practice but seldom preach."
"The world owes much to dreamers who elevated their dreams from the realm of fantasy to reality."
"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical."
"Accept the burden of the world's emptiness, and allow yourself to be driven by the enthusiasm of the Great Completion."
"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces."
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"The only task worthy of our efforts is to construct the future with all our strength."
"I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."
"The day will come when, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will discover fire."
"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous, and the most mysterious of cosmic forces."
"The future is more beautiful than all the pasts."
"The whole world is our family."
"Within us lies the collective faith and the sum of individual faiths that have gone before us."
"Life is a spiral. We pass the same point again and again, but approach it from a different angle each time."
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
"The more unified we are through love, the more we will be able to unify and gather others."
"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."
"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas, in fact, we live steeped in its burning layers."
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire."
"The time has come to realize that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things."
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
"What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity."
"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
"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."
"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."
"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire."
"Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves."
"There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter."
"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."
"In the shadow of death may we not look back or lament but continue our sacred pilgrimage... Let us not forget that the civilization evolved at Paraclet fosters not merely the hopes of humankind but its pride as well."
"There is a phenomenon in the world that strikes me as still unusual...This phenomenon is something as simple yet powerful as...love."
"We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."
"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."
"We are all born from a quiet crescent in existence, and will return to a quiet crescent — no matter what happens in between."
"The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe."
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
"Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world."
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
"Acknowledged or not, what everyone craves is the touch of the infinite on the finite."
"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other."
"Above all, trust in the slow work of God."
"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
"What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them."
"The more you are, the less you have to live for; the less you are, the more you have to live for."
"The most disconcerting revelation is essentially a secret that has been disclosed."
"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
"By the time you become fit for life, most of it is gone."
"The world is in travail and is in pain to be delivered."
"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces."
"The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers."
"God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my pick, my paintbrush, my needle — and my heart and my thoughts."
"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope."
"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."
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others."
"Everything that rises must converge."
"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."
"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."
"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable."
"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."
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist."
"What paralyzes life is failure to believe."
"Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, with each step, more and more in control..."
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?"
"We are faced with a harmonization of economic expansion with the biosphere."
"Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforth if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow."
"The world was made for the body. The body was made for the spirit."
"Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis."
"Fear not, seek only to know!"
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