From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.Loren Eiseley
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.
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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.
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Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
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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.
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If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.
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