Alan B Watts Famous Quotes
"If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it."
"But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."
"According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is"
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
Alan B Watts Quotations
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
Andrew A Rooney
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.
Darius Ogden Mills
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles De Gaulle
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns
"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."
Marlon Brando
"As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate."
Sandra
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Miles Davis
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb