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Act Quotes by Alan Watts
- Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to…
- Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
- So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the…
- One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is…
- Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the…
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- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt