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People Quotes by Alan Watts
- 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…
- A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
- What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead…
- People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
- 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…
- The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it…
- If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out.…
- Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely…
- Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...
- These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco…
- They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made…
- It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
- The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but…
- I owe my solitude to other people.
- Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
- What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
- In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone…
- The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always…
- 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…
- People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
- And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning,…
- Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is…
- We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of…
- 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 People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle