Quotes About Exploration

What had been revealed to me at this sadomasochism-themed party was the true face of all parties: how they were all, in one way or another, sadomasochism-themed.

They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored. My parents told me that I was expecting too much from Frog and Toad Are Friends: it wasn't a novel. In that way, I understood that a novel would explain all the things I still wanted to know

And rightly. Isn't there something to be researched, in every corner of God's creation? Isn't that what you've found, miss, in your travels?

But I was in Russia because I had looked at the literatures of the world and made a choice.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Your first discovery when you travel," wrote Elizabeth Hardwick, "is that you do not exist." In other words, it is not just the others who have been left behind; it is all of you that is known. Gone is the power or punishment of your family name, the hard-earned reputations of forebears, no

NO ROADS, NOT a single one, lead to the place where we had gotten ourselves.

Jung's gift for transcending the confines of his own consciousness began, as we have seen, in the fantasy games of his childhood.

The desire for solitude as a means of escape from the pressure of ordinary life and as a way of renewal is vividly illustrated by Admiral Byrd's account of manning an advanced weather base in the Antarctic during the winter of 1934. He insisted on doing this alone.

Parfois monter un escalier est la seule façon de savoir où il mène.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Un grand voyage, c'est toute une vie vécue en quelques mois ou en quelques années.

Das Leben war eine Ansammlung von Fluren, die man entlangging, ohne zu wissen, was für Räume an ihrem Ende lagen.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

books, pocket-size jewels, open up like doors to worlds you never knew existed.

El que busca lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

Quien busque lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

Aunque quizá, por otra parte, la vida sea precisamente andar a tientas. En la mía, las certidumbres –y no he tenido más que dos o tres– me han llevado en general a lo peor.

Somos islas errantes. Solitarios que corren juntos sin saber adónde