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Us Quotes by Loren Eiseley
- The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil…
- Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
- Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before....
- Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
- It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the…
- Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
- Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
- 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…
- The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us…
- I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
- When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
- Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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