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

“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.”

“In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.”

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”

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

“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”

“...the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

“Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?”

“We shouldn’t use ‘should’ too much.”

“[...] It is. Philosophy is a field that, unfortunately, reminds me of that old Woody Allen joke, "those that can't do, teach, and those that can't teach, teach gym." And the worst part of philosophy is the philosophy of science; the only people, as far as I can tell, that read work by philosophers of science are other philosophers of science. It has no impact on physics what so ever, and I doubt that other philosophers read it because it's fairly technical. And so it's really hard to understand what justifies it. And so I'd say that this tension occurs because people in philosophy feel threatened, and they have every right to feel threatened, because science progresses and philosophy doesn't.”

“The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.”

“The media are a criminal organization that uses advanced undiscovered technology to abuse their targets into trapping them do phenomenal crimes that are actually false reality in order to protect the real criminals, those they cover and present to you as innocents.”