Quotes About Discovery

There is a wonderful word, why? , that children use. All children. When they stop using it, the reason, too often, is that no one bothered to answer them, no one tried to keep alive one of the most important attributes a person can have: interest in the world around him.

Maybe, I thought, I've given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.

I felt a sensation that later in my life was often repeated: the joy of the new.

I cried and cried, as if I had carelessly lost somewhere the most promising part of myself.

talvez, diante do abandono, sejamos todos iguais; talvez nem mesmo uma cabeça muito disciplinada consiga suportar a descoberta de não ser amada.

Words for being lost or for being found.

I]t was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

Ahead of us were many hours when no one in our families would look for us. When I think of the pleasure of being free, I think of the start of that day, of coming out of the tunnel and finding ourselves on a road that went straight as far as the eye could see, the road that, according to what Rino had told Lila, if you got to the end arrived at the sea. I felt joyfully open to the unknown.

Por outro lado, não estava realmente deprimida. Sentia-me, em vez disso, como se tivesse sido largada num lugar e não fosse capaz de me reencontrar: angustiada, isto é, com os movimento demasiado rápidos e pouco coordenados, com a pressa de quem procura por todo o lado e não tem tempo a perder.

I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences.

Talent is insufficient: if it's not cultivated, it ends up, in the best cases, inventing the wheel, only to discover that this has been done already.

Experimentei algo que depois, ao longo de minha vida, se repetiu frequentemente: a alegria do novo

maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

Extraviados en sí mismos, ignoraban que una vida no basta para descubrir los infinitos sabores de la menta, las luces de una noche o la multitud de colores de que están hechos los colores.

El fuego arde en las entrañas de Leonora, nunca ha experimentado algo semejante: -¿Es esto el amor? Max le responde que el amor nace del deseo por alguien y que Nietzsche dijo: -<> -¿Y qué pasa si descubrimos su imperfección? -Viene el desamor.

Wer suchet, der findet Anstößiges, auf das er insgeheim hofft.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Relearn astonishment.

That's what I always tell myself when I'm being fact-checked, and some detail I was attached to turns out not to be true. I'm initially disappointed, and maybe discouraged that now there's more work for me to do, but I know that 99.9% of the time there's actually something there, in the truth, that's more interesting than whatever I or anyone else can make up.

I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.

If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

What kind of cretins cared more about hammering out a string of inheritance than about discovering universal truths? Historians, that was what kind. They would only be happy when they had translated every miraculous book into a product of its historical moment.

And I had never heard anyone describe so accurately the difference between last year and this year: Last year, I admired wines. This, I'm wandering inside the red world.