"Modern man lives increasingly in the future and……" — Loren Eiseley
"Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present."
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Loren Eiseley
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73 Quotes by Loren Eiseley
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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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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the…
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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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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
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The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
— Neil Armstrong
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
— Dean Acheson
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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