“Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?” ThinkingMenWorldLawThreeBlackVirtueModernTypeIllusionMourningPriestsPhysiciansAttorneyModern Society Author:Honore de Balzac
“If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.” IfsWorldFeelsSelfBlackWhiteExistenceIllusionFundamentalsStructureStrangerFabricDeep DownFlukesProbation Author:Alan Watts
“The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.” ThinkingWayGivingSuccessGirlBlackBoysGroupsFameGiving UpIllusionAthleteSingers Author:Kristin Hunter
“But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.” IfsSelfBlackWhiteIllusionRate Author:Alan Watts