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
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
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
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
Every man contains within hims...
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
When man becomes greater than ...
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
The creature called man has a ...
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.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
The plan is not what you think...
The plan is not what you think.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
It has been asserted that we a...
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
It has been said repeatedly th...
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
It has been said that great ar...
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.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
In the desert, an old monk had...
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
Fire, as we have learned to ou...
Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
Each and all, we are riding in...
Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
I love forms beyond my own, an...
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
Over the whole earth- this inf...
Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
When the human mind exists in ...
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
102 quotes
What if I am, in some way, onl...
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?
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
We think we learn from teacher...
We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.
Loren Eiseley
102 quotes
I am older now, and sleep less...
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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