Frasi di Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Data di nascita: 1. Maggio 1881
Data di morte: 10. Aprile 1955
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin è stato un gesuita, filosofo e paleontologo francese.
Se fu conosciuto in vita soprattutto come scienziato evoluzionista, ebbe notorietà come teologo soltanto dopo la pubblicazione postuma dei suoi principali scritti, tra i quali spiccano Il fenomeno umano , L'energia umana, L'apparizione dell'uomo e L'avvenire dell'uomo che parimenti descrivono le sue convinzioni teologiche e scientifiche.
In qualità di paleoantropologo fu anche presente alla scoperta dell'Uomo di Pechino. La scoperta del Teilhard teologo avvenne successivamente; Gianfranco Vigorelli in un suo libro del 1963 lo definisce già nel titolo "il gesuita proibito".
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„Noi non siamo esseri umani che vivono un'esperienza spirituale. Noi siamo esseri spirituali che vivono un'esperienza umana.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
citato in Rosemary Altea, Una lunga scala fino al cielo, traduzione di Elena Malossini Fumero, CDE, Milano, 1998
„Cristianesimo e Evoluzione: non due visioni inconciliabili, ma due prospettive fatte per modellarsi, per completarsi a vicenda. In fondo, questa alleanza non era già iscritta da molto tempo nelle istintive invenzioni del linguaggio parlato? "Creazione", "Incarnazione", "Redenzione": queste stesse parole non richiamano, con la loro forma grammaticale, l'idea di un processo, piuttosto che quello di un gesto locale o istantaneo?“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
da un articolo pubblicato su Esprit, agosto 1946; raccolto in La scienza di fronte a Cristo
„[Dio] creò la Vergine Maria, e cioè fece sorgere sulla terra una purezza così intensa da potere, in seno a tanta trasparenza, concentrarsi fino ad apparirvi bambino. Ecco, espressa nella sua forza e nella sua realtà, la capacità che la purezza ha di far nascere il Divino in mezzo a noi.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
da L'ambiente divino, traduzione di Annetta Dozon Daverio, Fabio Mantovani, Queriniana, 1994
„Tutto l'universo non è che la frangia del mantello di Cristo.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
citato in Mario Canciani, Vita da prete, Mondadori 1991, p. 129
„The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Context: What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step : because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
"The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether."
Variants:
"One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" — after all the scientific and technological achievements — "we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
As quoted by R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. in his speech accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for vice president, in Washington, D. C. (8 August 1972); this has sometimes been published as if Shriver's interjection "after all the scientific and technological achievements" were part of the original statement, as in The New York Times (9 August 1972), p. 18
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
As translated in The The Ignatian Tradition (2009) edited by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, p. 86
Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. … Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Seed Sown : Theme and Reflections on the Sunday Lectionary Reading (1996) by Jay Cormier, p. 33
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Fire of Love : Encountering the Holy Spirit (2006) by Donald Goergen, p. 92
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Read for the Cure (2007) by Eileen Fanning, p. v
„We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
This is attributed to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in The Joy of Kindness (1993), by Robert J. Furey, p. 138; but it is attributed to G. I. Gurdjieff in Beyond Prophecies and Predictions: Everyone's Guide To The Coming Changes (1993) by Moira Timms, p. 62; neither cite a source. It was widely popularized by Wayne Dyer, who often quotes it in his presentations, crediting it to Chardin, as does Stephen Covey in Living the 7 Habits : Stories of Courage and Inspiration (2000), p. 47
I spent a lot of time looking for this quote in all of Chardin' books and did not find it. That is the problem with the Internet, people simply copy and paste, therefore, it is our responsibility to keep an eye on errors of this kind. Be always careful to verify quotations that do not show a source (book/magazine, and page number, etc.)
Variant: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
The above "quotation" can be considered a paraphrase of Hegel's dictum that matter is spirit fallen into a state of self-otherness.
„What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Context: What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step : because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
"The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether."
Variants:
"One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" — after all the scientific and technological achievements — "we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
As quoted by R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. in his speech accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for vice president, in Washington, D. C. (8 August 1972); this has sometimes been published as if Shriver's interjection "after all the scientific and technological achievements" were part of the original statement, as in The New York Times (9 August 1972), p. 18
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
As translated in The The Ignatian Tradition (2009) edited by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, p. 86
Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. … Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Seed Sown : Theme and Reflections on the Sunday Lectionary Reading (1996) by Jay Cormier, p. 33
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Fire of Love : Encountering the Holy Spirit (2006) by Donald Goergen, p. 92
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Read for the Cure (2007) by Eileen Fanning, p. v
