"Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done;……" — Alan Watts
"Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it."
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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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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to…
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Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
— Ansel Adams
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that,…
— William Barclay
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