552 Quotes by Alan Watts

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Society is our extended mind and body.