Alan Watts quotes
Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker renowned for popularizing Eastern philosophy in the Western world. His lectures and books explored topics like Zen Buddhism, consciousness, and the nature of reality. He inspired generations to question conventional beliefs and seek deeper spiritual understanding. Here are 201 of his quotes:
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.
Alan Watts
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Occupation: English Writer
Born: January 6, 1915
Died: November 16, 1973
Quotes count: 201
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