251 Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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.

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

To see more is to become more.

The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

Everything that rises must converge.

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

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