"Man is always marveling at what he has……" — Loren Eiseley
"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."
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73 Quotes by Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by…
- Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark…
- [On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles…
- After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having…
- It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called…
- The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
- Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
- The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is…
- Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the…
- You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not…
- Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by…
- Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity,…