#voyage

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. ↗

— John Fiske

#christ #event #inclined #led #most

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#before #bodies #dancers #floor #lies

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#him #his #port #serves #voyage

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#battles #certain #certainty #how #many

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#correction #done #errors #i #new

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#eyes #having #landscapes #new #new eyes

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discovery #eyes #having #landscapes #new