Caves Quote by Anonymous

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something…

— Charles Horton Cooley

We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much…

— David Whyte

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid…

— Bret Easton Ellis

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

— Adam Clayton Powell, Jr

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

— Jim Morrison

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

— William Cowper

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable,…

— Edward Abbey

“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

— Karen Armstrong

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible,…

— Anonymous