Alan Watts Quotes

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

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• Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • America
  • Hate

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Music
  • New

• There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Want
  • You
  • Three

• Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • May
  • You
  • Beat

• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Men
  • Future

• I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Forever
  • Deep
  • German

• The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Free

• Because the brain can be guided by rational calculation only in a limited degree, it must fall back on the nuances of pleasure and pain mediated by the limbic system and other lower centers of the brain.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Fall
  • Pain
  • Brain

• We should not be frightened by appearances.

  

  Alain de Botton

• Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Financial

• The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Choices

• Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • American
  • Holocaust
  • Memorial

• I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and R&B and pop and whatever it may be.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Important
  • Future

• I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Theatre

• They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Up
  • Abuse

• I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Humans

• It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Hope
  • Without
  • Only

• The truth is, for me, when I was a young black girl who knew I was different, was watching TV, I would always be staring at the TV set looking for myself, and I didn't see me. And when you don't see yourself, you start to think that you don't matter, or you start to think that something is wrong with you.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Black

• Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Want
  • Rich
  • Poor

• There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

  

  Alan Watts