"The truth is revealed by removing things..." - Quote by Alan Watts
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
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“The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.”
“Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.”
“Everything is perpetually becoming new.”
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“Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.”
“The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.”
“This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.”
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“I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.”
“If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.”
“She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .”