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Alan Watts Quotes - Page 20

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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Past, Dangerous Situations, Risk

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

Cat, Violin, Scraping

Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Tao?”, p.89, New World Library

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Style, Church, Different

"The Essence of Alan Watts".

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Buddhist, Nonsense, Notes

Religion is always falling apart.

Fall, Falling Apart

Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.38, Tuttle Publishing

"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 important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

Technology, Animal, Vegetables

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Inspiring, Confused, Events

Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.58, New World Library

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Self, People, Curiosity

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

Crazy, Fall, Ideas

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Philosophy, Men, Expression

Alan Watts (1995). “The Philosophies of Asia: The Edited Transcripts”, Tuttle Publishing

The mind's the standard of the man.

Men, Mind, He Man

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Skins, Body, Kind

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Years, White, Black

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.37, Souvenir Press

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Reality, Negative

Alan Watts (1996). “Myth and Religion: The Edited Transcripts”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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 of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Writing, Men, Names

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Banking, Mathematics, Arithmetic

Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.43, New World Library

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Thinking, Feelings, Deceiving

Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

Business, Philosophy, Positive Thinking

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

Beach, California, San Francisco

Alan Watts (1997). “Zen & the Beat Way”, Tuttle Publishing

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

Strong

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Inspiring, Space, Patterns

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.68, Souvenir Press

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Teacher, Real, Men

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Mathematics, Grids, Type

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.104, Souvenir Press

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

Running, Race, Long

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