“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1878).
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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894Related quotes
“In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.”
“So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, I guess 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.”
"Skanks for the Memories"
As translated in The Zen Poetry of Dōgen : Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace (1997) by Steven Heine, p. 61
“I am beginning to feel like part of a travelling circus.”
Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.45
Giovanni's Room (1956)
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 332
“Before I traveled my road I was my road.”
Antes de recorrer mi camino yo era mi camino.
Voces (1943)
“Physics and psychology are going somewhere, but where they do not know. But… they are traveling”
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961)
Context: Physics and psychology are going somewhere, but where they do not know. But... they are traveling from: Democritan permanent particles and the Cartesian mind necessarily aware.... they are both traveling away from the same point of origin and in the same general direction: from the isolation of supposedly permanent "substances" towards the identification of changing relations potentially affecting everything; briefly, from substance to changing relations and structures.