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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From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.Loren Eiseley
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
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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.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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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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Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
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