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Ends Quotes by Alan Watts
- The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
- The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of…
- A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the…
- The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or…
- We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get…
- The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way…
- You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process.…
- Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"…
- If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body,…
More Ends Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C.S. Lewis
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- When you dont talk enough with your the people you love, theres a lot of beautiful stuff that ends up not getting… — Melchor Lim