43 quotes found
“I'm one of my sensations.”
“Waters water and thats why its beautiful.”
“Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.”
“What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.”
“Im glad I see with my eyes and not the pages Ive read.”
“I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.”
“Yes: I exist inside my body.Im not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I dont want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I dont want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a sto...”
“Its an already inside outside,The philosophers say its the soulBut its not the soul: its the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.”
“Shes a manner of speaking.Even the flowers dont come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, bec...”
“If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If thats its time, when else should it come?I like it tha...”
“Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseTheyd have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.”
“And since todays all there is for now, thats everything.Who knows if Ill be dead the day after tomorrow?If Im dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunder...”
“Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I dont want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?Its something relative t...”
“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!Hes stupid if he doesnt know other peoples unhappiness is theirs,And isnt cured from the outside,Because suffering isnt like ...”
“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now youre here.What you were isnt you, or else the...”
“If science wants to be truthful,What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?I close my eyes and the hard earth where Im lyingHas a reality so real even my back feels it...”
“I was born subject like others to errors and defects,But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..Never to the defec...”
“Between what i see in a field and what I see in another fieldThere passes for a moment the figure of a man.His steps go with him in the same reality,But I look at him and them, and theyre two thing...”
“Something changed in part of reality my knees and my hands.What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I dont make any more gestures.Its already not the same time, or the...”
“Night doesnt fall for my eyesBut my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.Beyond my thinking and having any thoughtsThe night falls concretelyAnd the shining of stars exists like it had we...”
“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”
“If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people dont have.I was happy because I didnt ask f...”
“Id like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing,To not ever feel myself living,To only know myself in others eyes, reflected.”