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“ ”Western thought has changed so rapidly in this century that we are in a state of considerable confusion. Not only are there serious difficulties of communication between the intellectual and the general public, but the course of our thinking and of our very history has seriously undermined the common-sense assumptions which lie at the roots of our social conventions and institutions.
About Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
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Additional quotes by Alan Watts
To succeed is always to fail, in the sense that the more one succeeds at anything, the greater is the need to go on succeeding. To eat is to survive to be hungry.
"[A] certain amount of "sitting just to sit" might well be the best thing in the world for the jittery minds and agitated bodies [...]."
You don’t listen to a song to get to the end of it, you listen to enjoy the song as a whole.