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.

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

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

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