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Loren Eiseley Quotes

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness Picture Quote #1

In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail’s eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one’s head about Picture Quote #1

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man’s opinion of himself Picture Quote #1

Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside Picture Quote #1

It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space Picture Quote #1

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape Picture Quote #1

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It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat Picture Quote #1

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

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution Picture Quote #1

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human Picture Quote #1

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation Picture Quote #1

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course Picture Quote #1

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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war Picture Quote #1

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man Picture Quote #1

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes Picture Quote #1

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure Picture Quote #1

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness Picture Quote #1

Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days Picture Quote #1

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This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is... the supreme epitome of the reaching out Picture Quote #1

The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep Picture Quote #1

What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk? Picture Quote #1

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything Picture Quote #1

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root Picture Quote #1

A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one’s head like a hall clock Picture Quote #1

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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man’s creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process Picture Quote #1

After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past Picture Quote #1

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality Picture Quote #1

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind Picture Quote #1

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight Picture Quote #1

The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us Picture Quote #1

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If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness (Loren Eiseley Quotes) In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail’s eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one’s head about (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man’s opinion of himself (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hove a million other lives that were never destined to be born (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution (Loren Eiseley Quotes) One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation (Loren Eiseley Quotes) God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes (Loren Eiseley Quotes) If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure (Loren Eiseley Quotes) It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days (Loren Eiseley Quotes) This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is... the supreme epitome of the reaching out (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep (Loren Eiseley Quotes) What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk? (Loren Eiseley Quotes) I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root (Loren Eiseley Quotes) A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one’s head like a hall clock (Loren Eiseley Quotes) Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man’s creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process (Loren Eiseley Quotes) After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past (Loren Eiseley Quotes) We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind (Loren Eiseley Quotes) We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight (Loren Eiseley Quotes) The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us (Loren Eiseley Quotes)

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