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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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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full…
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Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for…
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If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so…
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A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.
— Rumi
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The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't…
— Unknown Author
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It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for…
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