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The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
Loren Eiseley
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Loren Eiseley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 3
Died: 1977
Died: July 9
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Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.
Loren Eiseley
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.
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One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
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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 end as you planned.
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At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile
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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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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.
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The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
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The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.
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Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
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The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.
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I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.
Loren Eiseley
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
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 and good are perpetually within us.
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Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
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Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
Loren Eiseley
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
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Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
Loren Eiseley
I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
Loren Eiseley
Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.
Loren Eiseley