Alan Watts Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Self Esteem Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Ego Quotes

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Wise Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Long Quotes

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

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I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!

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Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Mean Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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