Philosophy Quote by Alan Wilson Watts — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”

“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.”

“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”

“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”

“The best physician is also a philosopher.”

“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.”

“Love will never let you down, if you don't give it up”

“To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.”

“What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted”

“the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.”