--- title: "28 Knows Quotes By Alan Watts" description: "28 Knows quotes by Alan Watts. Plus more from Alan Watts and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/alan-watts-587_god_you-don-t-need-to-try-to-be-god-you-are_540451.jpg" --- > [You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/you-don-t-need-to-try-to-be-god-you-are-but-if-you-try-to-be-god-it/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/alan-watts-587_god_you-don-t-need-to-try-to-be-god-you-are_540451.jpg) > [I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/i-would-suggest-that-today-we-know-about-as-much-concerning-the-human/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29c/alan-watts-587_galaxy_i-would-suggest-that-today-we-know-about_3185077.jpg) > [How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/how-did-you-know-you-re-alive-unless-you-d-once-been-dead/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/alan-watts-587_alive_how-did-you-know-you-re-alive-unless-you_2195838.jpg) > [Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/sex-is-no-longer-a-serious-taboo-teenagers-sometimes-know-more-about/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/alan-watts-587_adults_sex-is-no-longer-a-serious-taboo-teenage_925351.jpg) > [Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/take-a-deep-breath-and-tell-us-your-deepest-darkest-secret-so-we-can/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/alan-watts-587_breaths_take-a-deep-breath-and-tell-us-your-deep_1093399.jpg) > [To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way-of-saying-that-you-feel-2/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/alan-watts-587_another-way_to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way_2582518.jpg) > [Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/do-you-have-any-control-over-being-conscious-do-you-know-how-you-will/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f8/alan-watts-587_conscious_do-you-have-any-control-over-being-consc_1371829.jpg) > [For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/for-the-price-of-intelligence-as-we-now-know-it-is-chronic-anxiety/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/668/alan-watts-587_anxiety_for-the-price-of-intelligence-as-we-now_3103119.jpg) > [More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/more-and-more-we-try-to-effect-an-adaptation-to-life-by-means-of/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/alan-watts-587_adaptation_more-and-more-we-try-to-effect-an-adapta_2176867.jpg) > [When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/when-you-really-understand-that-you-are-what-you-see-and-know-you-do/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e2/alan-watts-587_countryside_when-you-really-understand-that-you-are_1311697.jpg) > [We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/we-know-that-from-time-to-time-there-arise-among-human-beings-people/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/alan-watts-587_arise_we-know-that-from-time-to-time-there-ari_783186.jpg) > [We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/we-are-not-clear-as-to-the-role-in-life-of-these-chemicals-nor-are-we/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e45/alan-watts-587_ancient_we-are-not-clear-as-to-the-role-in-life_1620708.jpg) > [Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/nothing-is-more-creative-than-death-since-it-has-the-whole-secret-of/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/alan-watts-587_abandoned_nothing-is-more-creative-than-death-sinc_887020.jpg) > [The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-whole-process-of-nature-is-an-integrated-process-of-immense/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/alan-watts-587_complexity_the-whole-process-of-nature-is-an-integr_971898.jpg) > [If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/if-you-belong-to-an-in-group-of-good-or-saved-or-elite-people-you-can/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b9/alan-watts-587_be-grateful_if-you-belong-to-an-in-group-of-good-or_1338498.jpg) > [The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-fools-standpoint-is-that-all-social-institutions-are-games-he/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/550/alan-watts-587_expression_the-fools-standpoint-is-that-all-social_548060.jpg) > [The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-question-what-shall-we-do-about-it-is-only-asked-by-those-who-do/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/alan-watts-587_clear_the-question-what-shall-we-do-about-it-i_1989922.jpg) > [The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-secret-of-the-enjoyment-of-pleasure-is-to-know-when-to-stop-man/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/alan-watts-587_art_the-secret-of-the-enjoyment-of-pleasure_2980523.jpg) > [As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/as-the-fish-doesn-t-know-water-people-are-ignorant-of-space/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/alan-watts-587_awareness_as-the-fish-doesn-t-know-water-people-ar_102743.jpg) > [You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/you-know-that-if-you-get-in-the-water-and-have-nothing-to-hold-on-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/alan-watts-587_behave_you-know-that-if-you-get-in-the-water-an_2675179.jpg) > [The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/alan-watts-587_activity_the-myths-underlying-our-culture-and-und_79409.jpg) > [Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/everybody-is-i-you-all-know-you-are-you-and-wheresoever-s-beings/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/alan-watts-587_breathe_everybody-is-i-you-all-know-you-are-you_957223.jpg) > [It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/it-seems-to-be-the-special-peculiarity-of-human-beings-that-they/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/alan-watts-587_awareness_it-seems-to-be-the-special-peculiarity-o_321191.jpg) > [We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/we-accepted-a-definition-of-ourselves-which-confined-the-self-to-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/alan-watts-587_accepted_we-accepted-a-definition-of-ourselves-wh_2825986.jpg) > [We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/we-are-seeing-then-that-our-experience-is-altogether-momentary-from/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/413/alan-watts-587_becoming_we-are-seeing-then-that-our-experience-i_2944262.jpg) > [To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way-of-saying-that-you-feel/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/alan-watts-587_another-way_to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way_224459.jpg) > [If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/if-you-love-a-person-you-say-to-that-person-look-i-love-you-whatever/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e0/alan-watts-587_bird_if-you-love-a-person-you-say-to-that-per_1388973.jpg) > [Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/just-what-should-a-young-man-or-woman-know-to-be-in-the-know-is-there/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4b/alan-watts-587_existence_just-what-should-a-young-man-or-woman-kn_2190017.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## 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/knows/alan-watts/#itemlist", "name": "28 Knows Quotes By Alan Watts", "numberOfItems": 28, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You don't need to try to be God, you are! 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