Quotes About Exploration

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.

checks the sick soggy plaster with his finger, the wet paint leaving a mark on his skin. The stains on the walls make maps of countries he can't recognize, he can't name.

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes. There one could jump down straight into the olive groves, or at least the vineyards in Moravia, where delicious green wine is made.

The tip of his penis rises like a vector, pointing out the window, toward the world.

One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am. At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between?

the vastness of these contents cannot be traversed from word to word- you have to step in between the words, into the unfathomable abysses between ideas. With every step we'll slip and fall.

She squeezes my shoulder and leaves, disappearing between shelves labeled "Drama" and "Action.

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am.

She goes, for example, to Chistye Prudy, changes from Sokolnicheskaya to Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya, and goes to Medvedkovo and then back to the other side of the city.

Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.

So he has found something he hadn't noticed before. He has to light a cigarette, he's so excited. He looks at that mysterious word, it will guide him now, he'll let it up with the wind like a kite and follow it. "Kairos," Kunicki reads, "Kairos," repeating it, unsure how it's pronounced. It has to be Greek, he thinks happily, Greek, and he dives into his bookshelves, but there's no Greek dictionary there, only Useful Latin Phrases, a

By my final years at primary school I had realised that literature was more than just an ordinary pleasure. I could tell that reading opened entirely different worlds before me...

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.

A man never goes so far as when he does not know wither he is going.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

Tycho Brahé from 1546 to 1601. Kepler from 1571 to 1630. Galileo from 1564 to 1642. Gilbert from 1540 to 1603. Francis Bacon from 1561 to 1626. Descartes from 1596 to 1650.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.