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Something Quotes by Alan Watts
- You can't have something without nothing.
- Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
- 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…
- There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too…
- 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…
- What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe…
- The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it…
- You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process.…
- You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
- Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
- A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
- 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,…
- The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in…
- 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…
- You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get…
- What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part…
- To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not…
- 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…
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes