Altingas Quotes & Sayings

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy? — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion — P.C. Cast

In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can. — Francis Lockier

The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it. — Rene Daumal

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other. — Pierre Coupey

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong. — Dale Carnegie

...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many. — Frederick Lenz

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. — Christopher Isherwood

Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring. — Robert Genn

Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances. — George Eliot