"As a human being it is just..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.”

“Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.”

“The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.”

“Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").”

“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.”

“[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

“Everybody wants something.”

“Man is bound to lie about himself”

“If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”