"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols……" — Alan Watts
"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content."
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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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You can dress attractively without being immodest. Within the Lord’s guidelines, there is room for you to be lively, vibrant,…
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with…
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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