Quote

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Watts

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
Anglican Priest
Author
Dramaturge
Musician
Philosopher
Theologian
Videographer
Writer
Kent
England
Algebra
Arithmetic
Accounting
Geometry
Banking
Mathematics
Known
Surveying
Preliminary

More quotes by Alan Watts

Image
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
Alan Watts
Image
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts
Image
Black implies white self implies other
Alan Watts
Image
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.
Alan Watts
Image
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.
Alan Watts
Image
...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.
Alan Watts
Image
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan Watts
Image
You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...
Alan Watts
Image
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.
Alan Watts
Image
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
Alan Watts
Image
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.
Alan Watts
Image
Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?
Alan Watts
Image
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Alan Watts
Image
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
Alan Watts
Image
It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt
Alan Watts
Image
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
Alan Watts
Image
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Alan Watts
Image
I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.
Alan Watts
Image
A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.
Alan Watts
Image
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
Alan Watts