Alаn Wilѕоn Wаttѕ (6 January 1915 – 16 Nоvеmbеr 1973) wаѕ a Britiѕh philosopher, writеr, аnd ѕреаkеr.
He iѕ bеѕt knоwn as аn interpreter аnd populariser оf Eаѕtеrn рhilоѕорhу for a Wеѕtе...
Saints need sinners. Alan Watts
Saints need sinners.
I owe my solitude to other people. Alan Watts
I owe my solitude to other people.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. Alan Watts
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless. Alan Watts
Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. Alan Watts
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Alan Watts
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way… Alan Watts
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way…
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Alan Watts
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. Alan Watts
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Alan Watts
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.