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Quote of Marcel Proust: The only true voyage, the only...


Biography - Marcel Proust:

French novelist, critic and essayist.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1922
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière


Note 

Note



often quoted as "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."


Quote source: La Prisonnière

Wikisource - Proust - La Prisonnière (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, de voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, que chacun d'eux est.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière

German
Die wahre Entdeckungsreise besteht nicht darin, neue Landschaften zu suchen, sondern mit neuen Augen zu sehen.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière



See also 

See also...



They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods



Quotes for: universe


Quotes

Quotes about the Universe:


The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
Voltaire - Les cabales / 





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei - The Assayer / 





You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
Alan Watts / 





Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.
Novalis - Fragments / 





All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.
Claude Monet / 





Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything
Gérard de Nerval / 






All about the Universe...




Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections / 





Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
Confucius - Analects / 





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu / 






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Quotes

Quotes for: travel


A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Laozi / 





Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.
Jean Racine - Les Plaideurs / 





Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa / 





Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
Émile Zola - Aventures du grand Sidoine et du petit Médéric / 





Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli / 





The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau






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Quotes

Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch / 





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei - The Assayer / 





The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 






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Quotes

Marcel Proust also said...


The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust / 





Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust / 





We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust / 





Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust





Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust





Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust







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