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Us Quotes by Alan Watts
- But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our…
- Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
- A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the…
- By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives…
- Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
- 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,…
- Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
- We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of…
- But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
- The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
- We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
- 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,…
- Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice,…
- We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and…
- When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
- Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled,…
- It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
- 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 Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle