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Ideas 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…
- Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name…
- 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…
- We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of…
- 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…
- To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
- In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,…
- 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.
- What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a…
- 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…
- 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…
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- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- 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
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- 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
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe