Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The menu is not the meal.
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