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

“God likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside of God, he has no one but himself to play with! But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams, for when he wakes up they will disappear.”

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

“Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

“All statistics have outliers.”

“Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.”

“Adversity discourages losers; adversity inspires winners.”

“The truth isnt always what you think, and what you think isnt always the truth.”