
Steinar's wife
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
"Citizens of the City of Light," p. 27
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
Steinar's wife
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
“I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.”
A comment of Einstein's recalled by John Wheeler in Albert Einstein: His influence on physics, philosophy and politics edited by Peter C. Aichelburg, Roman Ulrich Sexl, and Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1979), p. 202
Attributed in posthumous publications
Letter to Leopold Mozart (11 September 1778), from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler (1991), trans. J. Bradford Robinson [Cambridge University Press, 1994, ], p. 12.
Variant: A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place.
"Ace in the Hole"
Let's Face It (1941)
Context: This rule I propose,
Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at
Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.
Robert D. San Souci – Penguin Books USA http://www.penguin.com/author/robert-d-san-souci/26813
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
El Dorado.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)