“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul… — 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
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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
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
“To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the possibility of growth and change there… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — 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
