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Men 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…
- Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.…
- To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be…
- Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent…
- 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…
- Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is…
- When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
- Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown…
- The mind's the standard of the man.
- Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo,…
- The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,…
- To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people…
- One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is…
- Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
- But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
- Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off…
- Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a…
- There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is 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…
- Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
- When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He…
- The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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