Alan W Watts Quotes (12 quotations)
1. But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. - Alan W Watts
2. Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown. - Alan W Watts
3. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. - Alan W Watts
4. I owe my solitude to other people. - Alan W Watts
5. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. - Alan W Watts
6. No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. - Alan W Watts
7. Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. - Alan W Watts
8. Saints need sinners. - Alan W Watts
9. 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. - Alan W Watts
10. The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. - Alan W Watts
11. Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. - Alan W Watts
12. Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. - Alan W Watts
2. Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown. - Alan W Watts
3. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. - Alan W Watts
4. I owe my solitude to other people. - Alan W Watts
5. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. - Alan W Watts
6. No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. - Alan W Watts
7. Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. - Alan W Watts
8. Saints need sinners. - Alan W Watts
9. 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. - Alan W Watts
10. The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. - Alan W Watts
11. Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. - Alan W Watts
12. Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. - Alan W Watts
