A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol... — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what… — 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
