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Men Quotes by Loren Eiseley

39 Men quotes by Loren Eiseley

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Lights come and go in the night sky, and the quotes reflect on how modern man forgets the present while chasing the future. They note that great artists and scientists can frighten ordinary people, and that nature will respond when humanity exceeds its limits. A gentler, more tolerant people are needed.

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From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

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Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

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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…

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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…

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Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion…

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

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As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water…

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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…

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The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment…

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Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep…

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Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because…

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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…

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Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is…

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Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through…

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The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who…

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It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live…

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It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths…

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Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain…

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that…

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In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has…

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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…

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Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man…

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Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his…

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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…

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I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he…

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Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with…

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It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart…

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Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at…

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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…

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One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it…

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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…

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The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which…

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Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is…

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“Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any…

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Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the…

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We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except…

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects…

“The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.”

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among…

The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its…

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still…

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I…

Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream…

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would…

“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve the princess…