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.

Loren Eiseley
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  1. I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal... - Ayn Rand

  2. The relationship between truth and reason:" Truth cannot be reached by reason alone! - Maurice Blondel

  3. I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul - Beth Nimmo

  4. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delos McKown

  5. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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  1. Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked...

  2. Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp.. Like John Donne, man lies in a close prison, yet it is dear to him. Like Donne's, his thoughts at times overleap the sun and pace beyond the body. If I term...

  3. When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

  4. Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be...

  5. I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

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