Behold

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

“A pair of wings, a different mode of breathing, which would enable us to traverse infinite space, would in no way help us, for, if we visited Mars or Venus keeping the same senses, they would clothe in the same aspect as the things of the earth everything that we should be capable of seeing. The only true voyage of discovery…would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is…”

—Marcel Proust, The Prisoner (tr. C. K. Montrief)

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Comments

[pjthompson]

Date: 2018-10-28 01:59 pm (UTC)
wayfaringwordhack: (art - monk)
From: [personal profile] wayfaringwordhack IP Address: (2a01:cb14:8567:6b00:c5a2:cbe5:5769:2e78)
Oh so true.

[pjthompson]

Date: 2018-10-29 06:30 pm (UTC)
pjthompson: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pjthompson IP Address: (2605:e000:5ac3:e900:35f6:3b7f:d4a6:e06)
Often bowdlerized as: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Which isn't quite the same.