Alan Watts Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Wise men are not wise at all times.

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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

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For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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