Quotes About Exploration

E mai bine, totuÈ™i, s? o iei pe o cale greÈ™it? decât s? te r?t?ceÈ™ti complet.

En el mundo interior no hay en cambio ni trabajo ni monotonía. Lo visitamos únicamente en sueños o en la meditación, y su maravilla es tal que nunca encontramos el mismo mundo en dos sucesivas ocasiones. ¿Cómo puede extrañar entonces que los seres humanos, en su busca de lo divino, hayan preferido

The word 'escape' was suggestive

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

One day one would get up at six o'clock and pedal away to Kenilworth, or Stratford-on-Avon—anywhere. And within a radius of twenty miles there were always Norman churches and Tudor mansions to be seen in the course of an afternoon's excursion. Somehow they never did get seen, but all the same it was nice to feel that the bicycle was there, and that one fine morning one really might get up at six.

Books, he said—books. One reads so many, and one sees so few people and so little of the world. Great thick books about the universe and the mind and ethics. You've no idea how many there are. I must have read twenty or thirty tons of them in the last five years. Twenty tons of ratiocination. Weighted with that, one's pushed out into the world.

science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

If you go to New South Wales, you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. And if you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures at least as odd as kangaroos. You do not invent these creatures any more than you invent marsupials.

Primitive man explored the pharmaceutical avenues of escape from the world with a truly astonishing thoroughness. Our ancestors left almost no natural stimulant, or hallucinant, or stupefacient, undiscovered. Necessity is the mother of invention; primitive man, like his civilized descendant, felt so urgent a need to escape occasionally from reality, that the invention of drugs was fairly forced upon him.

I'm going to be sent to Iceland.

If you give experience a chance, if you're prepared to go along with it, the results are incomparably more therapeutic and transforming.

Wer zu lesen versteht, besitzt den Schlüssel zu großen Taten, zu unerträumten Möglichkeiten.

in the psychological equivalent of Australia.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Men find a new universe of thought and feeling, clearer and more comprehensible than the universe of daily experience.

All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably human, one travels comfortable and secure, contriving to forget that all round and below and above them stretches the blind mass of earth, endless and unexplored.

If] you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures... . You do not invent these creatures ... . They live their own lives in complete independence. A man cannot control them.

Que se ha cansado de ver siempre los mismos colores y se ha vendado los ojos una temporada para olvidarlos y pensar otros nuevos.

Mintea omului este ca viaÈ›a:un labirint care unori scoate din cel ce se pierde în el lucruri pe care niciodat? nu È™i le-a închipuit.

No hay más Tierra Prometida que la que el hombre puede encontrar en sí mismo.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

beyond the end of the world

Jasper Gwyn diceva che tutti siamo qualche pagina di un libro, ma di un libro che nessuno ha mai scritto e che invano cerchiamo negli scaffali della nostra mente.

Il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.