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Idea Quotes by Alan Watts
- If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly…
- Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise…
- The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the…
- The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
- The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
- Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
- For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found…
- 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…
- 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 Idea Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden