English - Philosopher | January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan Watts
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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
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Faith is a state of openness or trust.
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