Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Man will put foward a goal to raise himself to a new level to create a higher sicio-biological type.

We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.

I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.