Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

1881–1955 France

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit priest, philosopher, and a paleontologist present at the discovery of Peking Man.

France
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Geologists
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Paleontologists

Also known as: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Teilhard de Chardin, Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

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Nowhere... is the need more urgent of building a bridge between the... the physical and the moral...

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

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".

The Divine Milieu (1960)

I can truly say — and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought — that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.

What was previously only a centred surface became a centre. By a tiny 'tangential' increase, the 'radial' was turned back on itself and... took an infinite leap forward.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

There is no concept more familiar... than... spiritual energy, yet there is none... more opaque scientifically.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Disputed This is attributed to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in The Joy of Kindness (1993)

Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.

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