Loren Eiseley Quotes


One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. Loren Eiseley Catches 71
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. Loren Eiseley Among 64
I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature in the canny words of the Scotch theologue is not as natural as it looks. Loren Eiseley Nature 64
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. Loren Eiseley Apart 62
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. Loren Eiseley Flower 61
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 Potential 54
Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. Loren Eiseley Achieved 50
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren Eiseley Contained 49
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 Vision 48
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. Loren Eiseley Empathy 47
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. Loren Eiseley Artist 45
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 Absolute 43
To have dragons one must have change that is the first principle of dragon lore. Loren Eiseley Myth 33
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life we are not its perfect image for it has no perfect image except Life and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time. Loren Eiseley Evolution 29
Perhaps he knew there in the grass by the waters that he had before him an immense journey. Loren Eiseley Journey 26

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