It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher selfwhose rationale he doubts and does not understand.Loren Eiseley
From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
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God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
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Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
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Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realmwhich is that of the mind alone.
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