KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Alan Watts Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Alan Watts

Showing 41-48 of 48 Quotes by Alan Watts

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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Faith is a state of openness or trust.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Faith Openness State Trust

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 6th, 1915

Died: November 16th, 1973

Links

Find Alan Watts on Amazon

Related Authors

J. L. Austin
Francis Bacon
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Bernard De Mandeville
Alexander Meiklejohn
Timothy Morton
William Of Occam
William Whewell
Bernard Williams

Popular Authors

Dave Barry Charles Dickens Henry Ford Lyndon B. Johnson Keanu Reeves Andy Warhol Booker T. Washington Alan Watts

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1930 - Dolores Huerta

1755 - Samuel Hahnemann

1778 - William Hazlitt

1827 - Lew Wallace

1829 - William Booth

1835 - Henry Villard

1847 - Joseph Pulitzer

1867 - George William Russell

1882 - Frances Perkins

1887 - Bernardo Houssay

Birthdays on April 10th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Diet Environmental History Knowledge Marriage Memorial Day Sympathy Travel