Alan Watts Quotes, Decision Quotes, Doe Quotes

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

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He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

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The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

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God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

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Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

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Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?

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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

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