Alan Watts — Philosophical Quotes

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Alan Watts Quotes

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Alan Watts

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.”

Animal Simplicity Envy

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Alan Watts

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.”

Wisdom Joy Inspiring

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“If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.”

Flower Fields Transcendental

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“Black implies white self implies other”

Self White

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“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.”

Focus Attention

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“All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.”

People Consciousness Complicated

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“We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.”

Running Stars Fire

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“And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords”

Hands Used Ignorant

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“One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.”

Men Mind Ego

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“The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.”

Looks Order Telescopes

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“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 to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.”

Thinking Talking Discovery

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“It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".”

People Self Interesting

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