Alan W. Watts, The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Quotes

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way