"Mind is locked in matter like the spirit……" — Loren Eiseley
"Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear."
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73 Quotes by Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley has 73 quotes on this site.
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by…
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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…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called…
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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…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity,…
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Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
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Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of…
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Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time…
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— Pat Buchanan
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You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I…
— Carly Rae Jepsen
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It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the…
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Just because you're into Kate...well, it doesn't necessarily mean you're gay. Although it's okay if you are. But if that's…
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Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot…
— William Shakespeare
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The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing…
— Gerald Morris
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And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey…
— Kelley Armstrong
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At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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