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Life Quotes by Loren Eiseley
- 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,…
- Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
- 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…
- Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart…
- This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent…
- We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life,…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle