It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about.
Loren EiseleyIt has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
Loren EiseleyChoices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
Loren EiseleyThe iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
Loren EiseleyIt has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space.
Loren EiseleyGreat 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.
Loren Eiseley