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Form Quotes by Alan Watts
- Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.
- To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it,…
- 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…
- Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
- Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice,…
- What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all…
- To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is…
- Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
- We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the…
- We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the…
- To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not…
More Form Quotes
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong