Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
About Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseleywas an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies.
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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.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
American philosopher (1907-1977)
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.
American philosopher (1907-1977)