All Loren Eiseley Quotes
- Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. Among
- Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. .… All
- It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. Art
- It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… Absorb
- 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… Actual
- Every man contains within himself a ghost continent. Contains
- It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey. Asserted
- 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… Been
- 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,… Art
- In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. Advised
- 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. Cost
- Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be… All
- 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,… Any
- Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. Barrenness
- 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.… Depends
- 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… Brain
- Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days. All
- 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… Ability
- 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… Absolute
- 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… Beyond
- Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born. Born
- One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a… Controlled
- 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… Avoid
- 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… Apart
- 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. Accept