“Just as true humour is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.” — Alan Wilson Watts Comedy Copy Share Image
“you don’t die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.” — Alan Wilson Watts Birth Copy Share Image
“To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn’t fixed.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.” — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that.” — Alan Wilson Watts Choices Copy Share Image
“Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat.” — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“us. The good of contemplation is contemplation—not some result that it may bring.” — Alan Wilson Watts Contemplation Copy Share Image
“For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not… — Alan Wilson Watts Money Copy Share Image
“Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of… — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties—for rocks cannot… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is… — Alan Wilson Watts Gestalt Copy Share Image
“When you no longer make the distinction between the universe and how you are acting upon it, you are really on your… — Alan Wilson Watts Responsibility Copy Share Image
“it just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.” — Alan Wilson Watts Philosophy Copy Share Image
“For the coherent continuity of any one individual is much like a whirlpool in a river; it is “there” day after day,… — Alan Wilson Watts Continuity Copy Share Image
“A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I… — Alan Wilson Watts President Copy Share Image
“English the differences between things and actions are clearly, if not always logically, distinguished, but a great number of Chinese words do… — Alan Wilson Watts Language Copy Share Image
“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said,… — Alan Wilson Watts Dance Copy Share Image
“Reasonable–that is, human–men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an… — Alan Wilson Watts Compromise Copy Share Image
“So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its… — Alan Wilson Watts Hinduism Copy Share Image
“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality,… — Alan Wilson Watts Celibate Copy Share Image
“tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the… — Alan Wilson Watts Tomorrow Copy Share Image
“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we… — Alan Wilson Watts Fictions Copy Share Image
“Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that… — Alan Wilson Watts Afraid of death Copy Share Image
“We have made a problem for ourselves by confusing the intelligible with the fixed. We think that making sense out of life… — Alan Wilson Watts Fixity Copy Share Image
“The system can be paralyzed in yet another way. Every feedback system needs a margin of “lag” or error. If we try… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“But Jesus had to speak through a public-address system—the only one available—which distorted his words, so that they came forth as the… — Alan Wilson Watts Good news Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern… — Alan Wilson Watts Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only… — Alan Wilson Watts Education Copy Share Image
“Spencer Brown puts it) once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer,… — Alan Wilson Watts Foolishness Copy Share Image
“Like a mighty army moves the Church of God.” But this is no way for a gentle-man.” — Alan Wilson Watts Church Copy Share Image
“The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg goes after which?” This worked his mind to… — Alan Wilson Watts Psychology Copy Share Image
“We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who… — Alan Wilson Watts Music Copy Share Image
“What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve.” — Alan Wilson Watts Muscle Copy Share Image
“For Taoism concerns itself with unconventional knowledge, with the understanding of life directly, instead of in the abstract, linear terms of representational… — Alan Wilson Watts Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“we are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.” — Alan Wilson Watts Sleep Copy Share Image
