Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

The history of the world demonstrates that man becomes what we call civilized by increasing his wants.

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

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

I've learned to never take anything for granted and that people are all works in progress. Some people are just actively working on progressing, and some aren't.

I have developed as a player but also as a human being.

Everyone has changed, haven't they? Everyone tries to get better; everyone tries to grow.

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

Progress is the life-style of man.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.