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Loren Eiseley has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
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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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A yawn is a silent shout.
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Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost…
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One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
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In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.
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I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of…
— James St. James
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed;…
— Moby
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss…
— Hugh Miller
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We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes…
— Werner Herzog
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Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is…
— Marcel Proust
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There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with…
— Sri Chinmoy
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There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.
— Joseph Heller
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