Community Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Strong
“A society is defined not only by what it creates but also by what it refuses to destroy. ” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a "favored few"… — James K Polk Copy Share Image
The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“Only when people are free to worship, create, and build, only when they can decide their destiny and benefit from their own risks—only then… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that there is only one answer to this question: we must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that everyone, whatever his grade… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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