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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.
Loren Eiseley
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Loren Eiseley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 3
Died: 1977
Died: July 9
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.
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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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It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space.
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Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there.
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The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
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One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
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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.
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I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.
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Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
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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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The plan is not what you think.
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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.
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It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
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At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile
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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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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.
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One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.
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There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.
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The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.
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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 the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.
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