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Some Quotes by Alan Watts
- When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and…
- Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they…
- For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for…
- Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
- When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach