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Loren Eiseley has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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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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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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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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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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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey…
— William Shakespeare
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I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some…
— Filbert Bayi
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which…
— William Shakespeare
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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…
— Loren Eiseley
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the…
— Carl Sandburg
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In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night…
— William Shakespeare
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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he…
— Heinrich Heine
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Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to…
— Sherwood Anderson
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I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the…
— Lauren Oliver
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They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch…
— Mike Epps
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God can see a black ant walk on a black stone in a black night
— Arab Proverb
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