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Alan Watts Quote - The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.

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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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