"A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel……" — Alan Watts
"A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted."
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Alan Watts
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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for…
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I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
— Arnold Bennett
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took…
— Wade Boggs
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else…
— Edward de Bono
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and…
— Danny Boyle
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