Quotes by Alan Watts

Alan Watts

… nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Grids

Mathematics

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…[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

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…the habitual dualist’s solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Chopping

Horns

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…the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Civilization

Goal

Technology

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…the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word’s use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Animal

Lust

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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Coins

Gold

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Body

Events

Flames

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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Term

Trying

World

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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Attention

Paradox

Standing

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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Buddhist

Christian

Laughter

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