"Just as true humor is laughter at oneself,……" — Alan Watts
"Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself."
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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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Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
— Nancy Astor
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves…
— David Attenborough
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and…
— Lee Atwater
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against…
— Irving Babbitt
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