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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…
• Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
• [On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
• After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
• It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
• The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
• Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
• The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
• Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
• You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
• Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
• 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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