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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (French: [pjɛʁ tejaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] ( listen (help·info)); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere.

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Mankind is still embryonic. . . [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

Men, Bud, Complicated, Emerge, Mankind

At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

Altogether, Distance, Identify, Occur, Profound, Thinking

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

Brushes, Heart, Paint, Pen, Pick, Shovel

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

Spring, Night, Men, Whither, Come

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think. . . of any man as damned

Believe, Damned, Forbidden, God, Men, Thinking

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

Energy, Love, Powerful, Unknown, World

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

Cosmic, Force, Forces, Love Is, Mysterious, Tremendous

It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within.

Earth, Earthquake, Faith, Home, Inspiration, Tops

All the communions of a life-time are one communion. All the communions of all men now living are one communion. All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

Communion, Future, Living, Men, Past

Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is.

Facts, General, Light, Order, Science, Systems

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Cute Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Friend, Round, World

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

Taken, Men, Two, Strictly, Developed

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Collaborators, Creation, Inspirational, Proceed, Success, Teamwork

Faith has need of the whole truth.

Needs, Whole, Whole Truth, Faith, Truth

The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection. . . A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.

Envelope, Expansion, Grain, Ideas, Reflection, Thinking

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

Disordered, Fact, Long, Observer, Psychics, Way

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

Centres, Circumference, Summit, Summits, Two, World

We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

Giving Up, Hope, Limits, Order, Passion, Towards

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Birthday, Committed, Crime, Getting Older, Growing Up, Penalized

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. . . . the universal gravity of bodies,. . . is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Element, Gravity, Heart, Moves, Moving, Shadow

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