58 Quotes by Thor Heyerdahl

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

თანამედროვე ადამიანები მივეჩვიეთ, რომ ჩვენ უძველესი ადამიანებისაგან დიდად განვსხვავდებით, სინამდვილეში კი არავითარი ამის მსგავსი არაა, თუმცა მართალია, სხვანაირად ვცხოვრობთ, რადგან გვაქვს აღმოჩენები და ვიცვამთ კიდეც განსხვავებულად.

სხვადასხვა ღმერთებისადმი რწმენა იქ წარმოიშობა, სადაც მათ ადამიანების მიერ შექმნილ გამოსახულებებსა და კედლებს შორის მოამწყვდევენ...

Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

We are critical of the priests who burned the paper books of the Aztecs because contemporary Europe looked down upon the non-Christian Americans and wanted to destroy their heathen beliefs. But we ourselves have so little esteem for these same beliefs that although the most important ones were recorded by the early Spaniards, we reject them as the fables of primitive nations.

An outsider may wonder how deep a specialist must dig his hole before he realizes that he has lost sight of the horizon...

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.