Blind Quote by Alan Watts

“The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?”

Alan Watts

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Blind Doubt Drag Empty Ifs Ignorance Knowing Learning Not knowing Right and wrong Sky Tao Understanding

More by Alan Watts

“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

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

Image

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

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

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

Image

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Alan Watts

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

Image

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

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

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

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

Image

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

Alan Watts

Image

Explore all 460 Alan Watts quotes

More Blind quotes

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

Love is so blind, it feels right when it's wrong.

Beyonce Knowles

Image

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

Charles Dickens

Image

“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!”

Miriam Lichtheim

Image

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened…

Nirmala Srivastava

Image

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he…

Albert Camus

Image

My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a…

Melanie Martinez

Image

Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring…

Nikolai Berdyaev