"Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything……" — Alan Watts
"Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect."
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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
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