Dangerous Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dangerous Form Identity Improvement Pride Self Self improvement Spiritual Vanity
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. — Ishmael Butler Copy Share Image
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I… — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image