"But my dear man, reality is only a……" — Alan Watts
"But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
Alan Watts has 347 quotes on this site.
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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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More Blot Quotes
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid.…
— Coleman Dowell
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
— Saadi
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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never…
— Mark Twain
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
— James Madison
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences,…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain…
— Varlam Shalamov
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our…
— William James
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These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact…
— Dick Durbin
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
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Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or…
— Thomas Chalmers
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