Alan Watts Top Quotes

Alan Watts Quotes About Faith And Religion

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

--Alan Watts

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

--Alan Watts

"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."

--Alan Watts

"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed” 

--Alan Watts

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

--Alan Watts

"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

--Alan Watts

“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….” 

– Alan Watts

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

 – Alan Watts

“When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.” 

– Alan Watts

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

--Alan Watts

Alan Watts Qoutes About Philosophy

"The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present."

--Alan Watts

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself"

--Alan Watts

"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

--Alan Watts

"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."

--Alan Watts

"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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--Alan Watts

"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

--Alan Watts

"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."

--Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Philosophy


"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
--Alan Watts

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself"
--Alan Watts

"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
--Alan Watts


"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
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--Alan Watts


Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ”
― Alan W. Watts



“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.” Alan Watts


“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” Alan Watts



“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan W. Watts

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.” Alan Watts


Alan Watts Quotes About Humanity

"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning."

--Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

--Alan Watts

“It’s one of the great wonders of life: What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? And if you think long enough about that, something will happen to you. You will find out, among other things, that it will pose the next question to you: What was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You see, you can’t have an experience of nothing. Nature abhors a vacuum.”

--Alan Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

--Alan Watts

We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.

--Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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