"If you belong to an in-group of..." - Quote by Alan Watts
If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.
More by Alan Watts
“There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.”
“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.”
“A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts”
More on Duality
“If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.”
“Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”
“If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.”
More on Society
“It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.”
“Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.”
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”