Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“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… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...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. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
