"The menu is not the meal." — Alan Watts
"The menu is not the meal."
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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 Human Nature Quotes
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
— James A. Baldwin
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
— Alan Ball
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
— Henry Adams
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away…
— Bernard Baruch
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It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned…
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