{"id":11549,"date":"2016-05-13T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=11549"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:46:36","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Alan_W._Watts_8_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=11549","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Alan W. Watts (8 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1915-1973, British-born American Philosopher, Author<\/b><\/div>\n
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Humankind<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Belief<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Change<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Truth<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Anger<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Identity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Meditation<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.<\/div>\n
Alan W. Watts – [Zen<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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