citato in Rosemary Altea, Una lunga scala fino al cielo, traduzione di Elena Malossini Fumero, CDE, Milano, 1998
Frasi di Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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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; Giancarlo Vigorelli in un suo libro del 1963 lo definisce già nel titolo "il gesuita proibito". Wikipedia
Frasi Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
„Tutto l'universo non è che la frangia del mantello di Cristo.“
citato in Mario Canciani, Vita da prete, Mondadori 1991, p. 129
La scienza di fronte a Cristo. Credere nel mondo e credere in Dio
da un articolo pubblicato su Esprit, agosto 1946; raccolto in La scienza di fronte a Cristo
Origine: Consultabile su Disf.org http://disf.org/pierre-teilhard-chardin-cattolicesimo-scienza.
da L'ambiente divino, traduzione di Annetta Dozon Daverio, Fabio Mantovani, Queriniana, 1994
La scienza di fronte a Cristo. Credere nel mondo e credere in Dio
La scienza di fronte a Cristo. Credere nel mondo e credere in Dio
La scienza di fronte a Cristo. Credere nel mondo e credere in Dio
„The feminine is the most formidable of the forces of matter.“
"The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Contesto: I am far from denying the destructive and disintegrating forces of passion. I will go so far as to agree that apart from the reproductive function, men have hitherto used love, on the whole, as an instrument of self-corruption and intoxication. But what do these excesses prove? Because fire consumes and electricity can kill are we to stop using them? The feminine is the most formidable of the forces of matter. True enough. "Very well, then," say the moralists, "we must avoid it." "Not at all," I reply, "we take hold of it." In every domain of the real (physical, affective, intellectual) "danger" is a sign of power. Only a mountain can create a terrifying drop. The customary education of the Christian conscience tends to make us confuse tutiorism with prudence, safety with truth. Avoiding the risk of transgression has become more important to us than carrying a difficult position for God. And it is this that is killing us. "The more dangerous a thing, the more is its conquest ordained by life": it is from that conviction that the modern world has emerged; and from that our religion, too, must be reborn.
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. Such statements could be considered paraphrases of Hegel's dictum that matter is spirit fallen into a state of self-otherness. Or any number of thousands of similarly vague quotes by hundreds of predecessors.
Disputed
Variante: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Variante: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
„The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.“
Variante: The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
„The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.“
"The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Contesto: The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit.
"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
Variante: Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Contesto: 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.
Variante: We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.
„Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.“
For the people who know the Bible and Tradition and the complete history of humanity, Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God and that is why the Northern peoples, eaten up with sadness, come and visit the Latin countries.
Origine: Though often attributed to Chardin, it is found in Letters to His Fiancée (1937), by Léon Bloy, p. 57.
The Heart of Matter (1950)
Contesto: We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.
Prayer for Easter Sunday in the Ordos Desert of Inner Mongolia published in article “The Priest Who Haunts the Catholic World” Saturday Evening Post (12 October 1963)
Contesto: Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.
Receive, O Lord, in its totality the Host which creation, drawn by your magnetism, presents to you at the dawn of a new day. This bread, our effort, is in itself, I know, nothing but an immense disintegration. This wine, our anguish, as yet, alas! is only an evaporating beverage. But in the depths of this inchoate Mass you have placed — I am certain, for I feel it — an irresistible and holy desire that moves us all, the impious as well as the faithful to cry out: "O Lord, make us one!"
