Alan Watts — Philosophical Quotes

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Alan Watts Quotes

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Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.”

World Together Letters

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Alan Watts

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.”

Ideas Law Buddhism

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Philosophical

“Thought is a means of concealing Truth.”

Mean Concealing

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Philosophical

“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”

Powerful Power

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Philosophical

“The menu is not the meal.”

Philosophy Inspiring

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Philosophical

“However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.”

Two Stars Dark

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Philosophical

“Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.”

Practice Bridges Breathing

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Philosophical

“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 a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”

Writing Spiritual Order

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Philosophical

“The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.”

World Simple Doctrine

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Philosophical

“Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.”

Real Book Paper

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Philosophical

“More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.”

Thinking Mean Life

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Philosophical

“Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.”

People Thinking Idols

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