“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The Book I am thinking about would not be religious in the usual sense, but it would have to discuss many things… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Is a long life such a good thing if it is lived in daily dread of death or in constant search for… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Just as the bird leaves no trace, no record of its flight upon the void, so human desire can gain nothing out… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“[T]he art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The concepts of health and sickness, good and evil, better and worse, have the same use and relation to life as those… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“How many of us now realize that space is the same thing as mind, or consciousness? That when you look out into… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“My vocation in life is to wonder about at the nature of the universe. This leads me into philosophy, psychology, religion, and… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“This is what is called "honor among thieves," for the really dangerous people are those who do not recognize that they are thieves— the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“In knowing the world we humanize it, and if, as we discover it, we are astonished at its dimensions and its complexity, we should… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Who wants to serve in a police vice squad, spending hours peeking into men’s johns to detect acts of homosexuality? Who wants a job… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of contemplation, it… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“[S]een as a whole the universe is a harmony or symbiosis of patterns which cannot exist without each other.” — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The Book I am thinking about would not be religious in the usual sense, but it would have to discuss many things with which… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Great power is worry, and total power is boredom, such that even God renounces it and pretends, instead, that he is people and fish… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The human organism has the same kind of innate intelligence as the ecosystems of nature, and the wisdom of the nerves and senses must… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“We can never, never describe all the features of the total situation, not only because every situation is infinitely complex, but also because the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
