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I am not nearly so interested...

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 102 quotes

It was the failures who had a...

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

The great artist, whether he ...

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

Subconsciously the genius is ...

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.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

Of all the unexpected qualiti...

Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

You think that way as you beg...

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.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

The creative element in the m...

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.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

Each man deciphers from the a...

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

Each one of us is a statistic...

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

We are rag dolls made out of ...

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

It is a commonplace of all re...

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

Choices, more choices than we...

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

Since the first human eye saw...

Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

It is a funny thing what the ...

It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

From the solitude of the wood...

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

It has been said repeatedly t...

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

The journey is difficult, imm...

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 102 quotes

Great minds have always seen ...

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 102 quotes

Man no longer dreams over a b...

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 102 quotes

We cannot pluck a flower wito...

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

Loren Eiseley 102 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....