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Sense Quotes by Alan Watts
- The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which…
- For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret…
- The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,…
- Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and…
- The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
- The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,…
- But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"…
- For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found…
- 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…
- Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
- It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton…
- Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
More Sense Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- 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
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen 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
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden