“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“We reason of these things with later reason
And we make of what we see, what we see clearly
And have seen, a place dependent on ourselves.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Original: (pt) Viajar? Para viajar basta existir. [...] Para quê viajar? Em Madrid, em Berlim, na Pérsia, na China, nos Pólos ambos, onde estaria eu senão em mim mesmo, e no tipo e género das minhas sensações?
A vida é o que fazemos dela. As viagens são os viajantes. O que vemos não é o que vemos, senão o que somos.
Source: The Book of Disquiet, p. 360
Context: To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. […] Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?
Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Charlotte Joko Beck (1917–2011) US American Zen Teacher
Source: Nothing Special
On the absence of people of color in her school curriculums in “‘My Writing is My Activism’: An Interview with Isabel Quintero” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-writing-is-my-activism-an-interview-with-isabel-quintero/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2017 Feb 1)
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Farewell statement, Warsaw, Poland, reported in The New York Times (2 July 1964)
Context: Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
“We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.”
H. M. Tomlinson (1873–1958) British writer
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