“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“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 (1881-1955)
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“In the end, only the truth will survive.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)