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.
Tags: philosophy

Other Quotes by "Alan Wilson Watts"

Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought. The trisection of an angle is similarly an insoluble problem only for compass and straight-edge construction, and Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise so long as their progress is considered piecemeal, endlessly having the distance between them. However, as it is not Achilles but the method of measurement which fails to catch up with the tortoise, so it is not man but his method of thought which fails to find fulfillment in experience.
Tags: science, measurement, epistemology
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
Tags: science
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far inn, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself
Tags: understanding, spirituality, reality, personal-development, metaphysics, existence, being
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.
Tags: time, present, now, names, memory, expectation
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Tags: time, present, past, illusion, future
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