"The religious idea of God cannot do full……" — Alan Watts
"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
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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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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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