“Discord on one level is harmony on another”
More from Alan Watts on Philosophy
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”
“To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.”
“I owe my solitude to other people.”
“Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.”
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”
Others on Philosophy
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”