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Other Quotes by Loren Eiseley
- A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.…
- I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.
- Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across…
- 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…
- Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
- One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
- 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…
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- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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