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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Become Difficulty God Idea Incredible Modern Modern World Most Old-Fashioned Us World

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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Devil Drag Going Living People Point See Surviving You

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

~Alan Watts

Topics: Church Different God Mosque Natural Seems Style Synagogue Universe

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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Because Believe Born Defend Estates Heirs Inheritance Kindred Parents Principles Some Take Them Tutors Would

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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Department Life Religion Something Whole

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Admit Any Being Everybody God Nobody Point Rate Really

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Faith is a state of openness or trust.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Faith Openness State Trust

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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Always Efforts Egos Feel Futile His Invariably Like Moralist Ought People Person Still Tells Unselfish Who

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 6th, 1915

Died: November 16th, 1973

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