“Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”
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ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BCRelated quotes
“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.”
Antonio Machado book Kampos di Kastilia
"Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
Context: Wanderer, your footprints are
the path, and nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
the path is made by walking.
Walking makes the path,
and on glancing back
one sees the path
that will never trod again.
Wanderer, there is no path—
Just steles in the sea.
“They’ll say you’re walking down the wrong path, if you’re walking down your path.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.
Voces (1943)
Antonio Machado book Kampos di Kastilia
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar.
"Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
Thich Nhat Tu (1969) Vietnamese philosopher
Buddhist Socteriological Ethics: A Study of the Buddha’s Central Teachings (1999)
Khalil Gibran book The Prophet
The Prophet (1923)
Context: Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
1960s, What Has Happened to America? (1967)