Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Life Quotations

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

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.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

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.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.