"But my dear man, reality is only..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.”

“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”

“The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.”

“Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”

“He that best understands the world, least likes it”

“Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions”

“The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.”

“What is fright by night is curiosity by day.”

“Mastery is often taken for egotism.”