“Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.” MenMindLongFacesWishFailingJourneyEvolutionBonesEvolveSurvivedMidnightGreat Minds Author:Loren Eiseley
“The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.” MenMindExistenceCreativeFashionElementsGhostMysteriousLeapParticlesMomentary Author:Loren Eiseley
“Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.” MenWorldMindPastUniverseForceNaturalAnimalHistoryGenerationsAirSeaStrangeForestsEverlastingTrailsPathwaysStrange World Author:Loren Eiseley
“The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.” MindCreativityConsciousAccessCraftsRegionsProblem SolvingObscureLinkedFacilityConscious Mind Author:Loren Eiseley
“Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.” MenMindMatterPhilosophySpiritFearStruggleLockedDragLife StruggleAriel Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic
“Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.” MenMindLawNatureHalfForeverToolsRealmsReachingUniformity Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic
“Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.” MenMindHumansDoeImportantBodyLastsUniverseNatureForgetAnimalBrainQualityDevelopmentHighestRegardPlantUnexpectedRemarkableHuman MindProtectedSheerUnseenConsumedForget ItStarvingMetabolismCombustion Author:Loren Eiseley
“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.” MenMindHumansMayMadeReasonLightGoneAbsolutesCertaintyInstantHuman MindAbsolute Certainty Author:Loren Eiseley
