English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Alan Watts Quotes

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

Alan Watts

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. T. S. Eliot
Tom Stoppard quote: "I feel overestimated."
I feel overestimated. Tom Stoppard
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done. Lalla Ward
When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven. Herbert Croly
Abu Bakr quote: "When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When..."
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. Abu Bakr
My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted jo? the purest joy of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? Elias Canetti
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. Rowan D. Williams
Vera Wang quote: "My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I..."
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie. Vera Wang
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition. Maurice Chevalier
Harper Lee quote: "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty." Jeanl Lousie (Scout)..."
Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty." Jeanl Lousie (Scout) Finch Harper Lee
Paul Gauguin quote: "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin
When you've lived as long as I have, you tend to think you've heardeverything, that there's nothing left that can shock you anymore. You grow a little complacent about your so-called knowledge of the world, and then, every once in a while, something comes along thatjolts you out of your smug cocoon of superiority, that reminds you allover again that you don't understand the first thing about life. Paul Auster
Emily Bronte quote: "If he loved with all the power of his puny being, he couldn't..."
If he loved with all the power of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. Emily Bronte
Ron Paul quote: "It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect..."
It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves. Ron Paul