Alan Watts Quotes, Flames Quotes, Events Quotes

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

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It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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