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World Quotes by Alan Watts
- 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…
- Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
- You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave…
- As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one…
- Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
- A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world…
- Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and…
- 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…
- The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions…
- When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous,…
- Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this…
- There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a…
- Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
- 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…
- There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity…
- 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,…
- Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?
- The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
- Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of…
- In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,…
- Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
- What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of…
- If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the…
- A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
- But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach