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Own Quotes by Loren Eiseley
- After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its…
- 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 has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
- We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories.…
- Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
- 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…
- God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
- As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog…
- If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we…
- I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov