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Things Quotes by Alan Watts
- Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.…
- If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still…
- The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
- 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.
- 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…
- "It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is…
- The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or…
- When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
- Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is…
- The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building,…
- The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's…
- Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well…
- If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
- Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the…
- Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a…
- The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness…
- Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable…
- If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle