--- title: "4 Big bang Quotes By Alan Watts" description: "4 Big bang quotes by Alan Watts. Plus more from Alan Watts and more Big bang sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea6/alan-watts-587_bang_you-re-not-something-that-s-a-result-of_825094.jpg" --- > [You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/you-re-not-something-that-s-a-result-of-the-big-bang-you-re-not/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea6/alan-watts-587_bang_you-re-not-something-that-s-a-result-of_825094.jpg) > [Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/billions-of-years-ago-you-were-a-big-bang-but-now-you-re-a/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/alan-watts-587_bangs_billions-of-years-ago-you-were-a-big-ban_1030071.jpg) > [You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/you-are-the-big-bang-the-original-force-of-the-universe-coming-on-as/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b90/alan-watts-587_bangs_you-are-the-big-bang-the-original-force_1644642.jpg) > [“It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/it-s-like-you-took-a-bottle-of-ink-and-you-threw-it-at-a-wall-smash/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/146/alan-watts-587_big-bang_it-s-like-you-took-a-bottle-of-ink-and-y_2101334.jpg) ## Other authors on Big bang - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dejan-stojanovic-28518.jpg) Dejan Stojanovic 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/dejan-stojanovic/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-degrasse-tyson-70683.jpg) Neil deGrasse Tyson 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/neil-degrasse-tyson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michio-kaku-67732.jpg) Michio Kaku 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/michio-kaku/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-hawking-87021.jpg) Stephen Hawking 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/stephen-hawking/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-seungri-84155.jpg) Seungri 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/seungri/) - [Henning Genz 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/henning-genz/) - [Nicholas Chong 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/nicholas-chong/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-fred-hoyle-36050.jpg) Fred Hoyle 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/fred-hoyle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brian-greene-19509.jpg) Brian Greene 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/brian-greene/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-martin-rees-64778.jpg) Martin Rees 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/martin-rees/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-seth-shostak-84148.jpg) Seth Shostak 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/seth-shostak/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/richard-dawkins/) ## More by Alan Watts > [“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-self-conscious-feedback-mechanism-of-the-cortex-allows-us-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-more-we-try-to-catch-hold-of-the-present-moment-the-more-elusive/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-universe-is-the-game-of-the-self-which-plays-hide-and-seek/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/if-my-happiness-at-this-moment-consists-largely-in-reviewing-happy/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/mysticism-and-empiricism-go-together-in-opposition-to-scholasticism/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-hallucination-of-being-a-separate-ego-will-not-stand-up-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/although-profoundly-inconsequential-the-zen-experience-has/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [Everything is perpetually becoming new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/everything-is-perpetually-becoming-new/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-psychotherapist-tries-to-help-the-individual-to-be-himself-and-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/as-you-make-more-and-more-powerful-microscopic-instruments-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/we-are-at-the-moment-looking-at-space-as-something-to-be-entered-by/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/a-philosopher-is-a-sort-of-intellectual-yokel-who-gawks-at-things/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-best-way-to-convince-someone-is-by-making-him-realize-that-what/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-myths-underlying-our-culture-and-underlying-our-common-sense-have/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-feel-that-life-is-meaningless-unless-i-can-be-permanent-is-like/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-bang/alan-watts/#itemlist", "name": "4 Big bang Quotes By Alan Watts", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You're not something that's a result of the big bang. 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