"A myth is an image in terms of……" — Alan Watts
"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not…
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
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If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no…
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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the…
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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora…
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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of…
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its…
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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
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We usually don't look. We overlook.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode…
— Aristotle
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they…
— Teresa of Avila
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
— Francis Bacon
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Science is but an image of the truth.
— Francis Bacon
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
— Ansel Adams
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless…
— Drew Barrymore
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of…
— Mortimer Adler
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