Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape |
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. |
From the solitude of the wood, [Man] has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart. |
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. |
I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind
of monkey he is to become. |
I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become. |
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. |
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. |
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. |
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. |
Life may exist in yonder dark, but it will not wear the shape of man |
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. |
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. |
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape |
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape |