"We have a strange anxiety in us; that……" — Alan Watts

"We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble."

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347 Quotes by Alan Watts

Alan Watts has 347 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not…
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no…
The sound of the rain needs no translation.
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the…
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora…
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of…
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its…
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
We usually don't look. We overlook.

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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