Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Born: 01-01-1881
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest, theologian, and paleontologist renowned for integrating science and religion. Born in 1881, he explored evolutionary theory and its spiritual implications. His groundbreaking work, "The Phenomenon of Man," presents a vision of the universe evolving toward an ultimate point of complexity and consciousness. Teilhard de Chardin's ideas continue to inspire discussions on faith and science.
Book summaries for books written by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Quotes
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
The more complex the higher, the more conscious and the more personal.
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces.
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
The world, the universe, is a problem to be solved by love, not by power.
The history of the living world can be summarised as the elaboration of ever more perfect eyes within a cosmos in which there is always something more to be seen.
The phenomenon of Man is not something added to the world; it is the world itself seen from a certain perspective.
The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.