You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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