"Our view of reality is like a..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.”

“These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.”

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

“People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible”

“The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.”

“That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.”

“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.”

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”