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Human Quotes by Alan Watts
- The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more…
- The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
- You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
- Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and…
- What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of…
- If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the…
- Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless…
- 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,…
- Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle