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Own 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…
- The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of…
- The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions…
- The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself.…
- Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous…
- Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own…
- 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…
- Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
- Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening…
- We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and…
- 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,…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- 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
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov