Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday