Home / Quotes / Quote by Alan Watts

Quote by Alan Watts

“Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”

Quote by Alan Watts

Book:The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

Work

The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

This book delves into the intricate connections between the human mind and the biochemical reactions that occur within the body, offering a unique perspective on the nature of consciousness. more

Author

Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker known for his exploration of the relationship between Eastern and Western thought, particularly focusing on Zen Buddhism and its influence on Western culture. His work has influenced many in the areas of spirituality, psychology, and the philosophy of science. more

You May Also Like

“Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.”

Men Persons Body Half Cutting Identity Survival Instinct Organisms Participation

Book:The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”

World Helping Given Brain Gone Perceive

Book:The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

Book:The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

“I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.”

Ifs Looks Eye Lasts Lying Sides President Missing Conversation Dear Release His Eyes Strings Collapse Coins Remorse Amusement Arrows Plunge Balconies

Author:Suzanne Collins

“I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.”

Thinking Body Eye Jobs Sound Rocks Ten Kissing Weak Meetings Lips Wide Fancy Lakes Pairs Gale

Author:Suzanne Collins

“If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.”

Ifs Way Humans Doe Reason Action Human Beings Impossible Theory Determine Complicated Free Will Organisms Unified

Author:Stephen Hawking

“A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.”

Ifs Believe Looks Ideas School Born Watches College Civilization Indian Bridges Behave Jungle If You Believe

Author:B. Traven

“I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.”

Ifs Inspirational May Hours Worst Performances Workers Hardest Labour Waking Devoted Definite Autobiography Idlers

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.”

People Evil Decision Worst Crime Intelligent Committed Decent Pragmatic Degenerates

Author:Colin Wilson

“It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.”

Writing Looks Persons Faces Views Easier Letters Angry Point Of View

Book:The essential Colin Wilson

Source: The essential Colin Wilson