“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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Robert Louis Stevenson118
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.”
Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels
“So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, I guess 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.”
Dave Attell (1965) comedian
"Skanks for the Memories"
Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
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.”
James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room
Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.45
Giovanni's Room (1956)
“Before I traveled my road I was my road.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
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”
Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer
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.