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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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From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
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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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The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
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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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In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.
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What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?
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This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.
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Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
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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.
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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.
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Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
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I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.
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The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.
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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.
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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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The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.
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