Loren Eiseley Quotes

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.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.