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 WATTSYou 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
-
-
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
ALAN WATTS -
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTS -
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTS -
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
ALAN WATTS -
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTS -
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTS -
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
ALAN WATTS -
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTS -
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.
ALAN WATTS -
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
ALAN WATTS -
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTS -
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTS -
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTS -
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTS -
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN WATTS