"If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me."

-- Alberto Giacometti

#Thinking Quotes #Glasses Quotes #World Quotes

“Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.”
“I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.”
“Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.”
“What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.”
“Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.”
“Love is the outreach of self toward completion.”
“Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.”

Source : Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail
“You have to know where you were going in order to get there.”

Source : Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Tattoo”, p.56, Scholastic Inc.

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