“It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some… — Alan W. Watts Education Copy Share Image
“[T]he natural universe is not a linear system. It involves an infinitude of variables interacting simultaneously, so that it would take incalculable… — Alan W. Watts Nature Copy Share Image
“Chuang-tzu: ‘‘The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep.” — Alan W. Watts Perfect man Copy Share Image
“The world outside your skin is just as much you as the world inside: they move together inseparably, and at first you… — Alan W. Watts Light And Sound Copy Share Image
“Nobody believes in God like an atheist: 'There is no God, and I am His prophet.” — Alan W. Watts God Copy Share Image
“[F]or several thousand years we have been obsessed with a false humility—on the one hand, putting ourselves down as mere creatures" who… — Alan W. Watts Thousand years Copy Share Image
“nirvana, must of necessity happen by itself. It not only cannot but must not be induced by trying and willing, since anything… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come… — Alan W. Watts Life Copy Share Image
“[T]he art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the… — Alan W. Watts Art Copy Share Image
“To cut a long story short, thus far the contribution of logical philosophy to metaphysics has been entirely negative. The verdict seems… — Alan W. Watts Long story Copy Share Image
“A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The… — Alan W. Watts Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The whole history of religion is the history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.” — Alan W. Watts Failure Copy Share Image
“[W]hen "the rule of law" becomes absolutized and everything is done by the book or the computer, people call out in desperation… — Alan W. Watts Books Copy Share Image
“In other words, the “rigorously scientific” method of predicting the future can be applied only in special cases-where prompt action is not… — Alan W. Watts Important decision Copy Share Image
“As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to… — Alan W. Watts Life Copy Share Image
“By itself, a tree is meaningless, but it is the meaning of the word “tree.” — Alan W. Watts Trees Copy Share Image
“The concepts of health and sickness, good and evil, better and worse, have the same use and relation to life as those… — Alan W. Watts Good and evil Copy Share Image
“Being “high” on LSD and “drunk” on bourbon. True, no one in either state should drive a car, but neither should one… — Alan W. Watts Books Copy Share Image
“How many of us now realize that space is the same thing as mind, or consciousness? That when you look out into… — Alan W. Watts Afraid of life Copy Share Image
“My vocation in life is to wonder about at the nature of the universe. This leads me into philosophy, psychology, religion, and… — Alan W. Watts Everlasting love Copy Share Image
“[T]here is some other way of understanding and getting along with the process of nature than by translating it into words. After… — Alan W. Watts Getting along Copy Share Image
“I could make a strong, if not conclusive, case for the idea that plants are more intelligent than people—more beautiful, more pacific,… — Alan W. Watts Gardening Copy Share Image
“But my brain, which is also I, your brain and the thoughts within it, as well as the house across the street,… — Alan W. Watts Real world Copy Share Image
