“That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.” Strong Author:Alan Watts
“My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.” PeopleEnoughFormYoungReadingSituationBreakCreativeGroupsHistoricalMinoritiesEmpiresRomeBreaking DownTurkeysMinority Groups Author:Timothy Leary
“Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.” GivingKindDoeHouseMaterialsClothesFundamentalsEducationalCooksMaking LoveCompetenceEducational SystemEntirety Author:Alan Watts
“And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.” TwoIdeasLostLove IsEssentialsFemaleBasesMalesRelateGrantsFidelityLove Is Lost Author:Alan Watts
“Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.” KindRealityAll KindsDeveloping Author:Alan Watts
“Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.” SchoolPublic School Author:Timothy Leary
“Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.” YearsTwoDoneMistakeHalfYears AgoRidiculousPotBatsBlundersLsd Author:Timothy Leary
“What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.” IfsShouldMeanDifferentAttitudeExampleHolyKicksDifferent Attitude Author:Alan Watts
“I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.” WantYeahGet AwayFly AwayYeah Yeah Yeahs Author:Lenny Kravitz
