Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants. — Gene Stallings Copy Share Image
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself. — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
The scope and scale of the universe are incalculable and to be able to observe that inside an eyepiece to me is just absolutely… — Tim Russ Copy Share Image
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. — John Wagner Copy Share Image
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton 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 animal soul, a rider and a horse, a good guy with better instincts and finer feelings and a rascal with rapacious lusts and untruly passions. Hence the marvelously involved hypocrisies of guilt and penitence, and the… — Alan Watts Copy Share
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 still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me… — Alan Watts Copy Share
...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 as when the telescopes become more and more powerful, the galaxies have to recede in order to get away from the telescopes. Because what is happening in all these investigations is this: Through us and through… — Alan Watts Copy Share
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and… — Alan Watts Copy Share
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
