Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

human spiritual experience

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

master wind wave tide gravity love fire

“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)

duty men women limit ability collaborate creation

“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)

value life ordinary

“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 spirit move slow see

“Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

future belong generation hope

“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

universe observer observed

“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

end truth survive

“In the end, only the truth will survive.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

destiny thing real destroy artifice

“It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)