"I would suggest that today, we know..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.”

“When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.”

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”

“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”

“Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.”

“Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.”

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”

“I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.”

“Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”