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Great Quotes by Alan Watts
- Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole…
- Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.
- The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but…
- You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
- Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
- One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
- The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong