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Loren Eiseley Quotes

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile Picture Quote #1

The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts Picture Quote #1

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness Picture Quote #1

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable Picture Quote #1

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear Picture Quote #1

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time Picture Quote #1

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When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone Picture Quote #1

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star Picture Quote #1

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore Picture Quote #1

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun Picture Quote #1

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water Picture Quote #1

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows Picture Quote #1

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I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us Picture Quote #1

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond Picture Quote #1

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present Picture Quote #1

I no longer cared about survival... I merely loved Picture Quote #1

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent Picture Quote #1

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night Picture Quote #1

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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us Picture Quote #1

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before Picture Quote #1

The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain Picture Quote #1

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know Picture Quote #1

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become Picture Quote #1

Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable... Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely... So important does nature regard this unseen combustion... that a starving man’s brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed Picture Quote #1

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Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort Picture Quote #1

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself Picture Quote #1

It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey Picture Quote #1

It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it Picture Quote #1

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers? Picture Quote #1

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born Picture Quote #1

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At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts. (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness (Loren Eiseley Quotes) In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear (Loren Eiseley Quotes) We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time (Loren Eiseley Quotes) When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone (Loren Eiseley Quotes) One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star (Loren Eiseley Quotes) To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore (Loren Eiseley Quotes) In the days of the frost seek an minor sun (Loren Eiseley Quotes) If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water (Loren Eiseley Quotes) I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows (Loren Eiseley Quotes) I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us (Loren Eiseley Quotes) When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present (Loren Eiseley Quotes) I no longer cared about survival... I merely loved (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Every man contains within himself a ghost continent (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know (Loren Eiseley Quotes) I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable... Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely... So important does nature regard this unseen combustion... that a starving man’s brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it (Loren Eiseley Quotes) As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers? (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born (Loren Eiseley Quotes)

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