Alan Watts Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Matter Quotes

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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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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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

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I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

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I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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I dont have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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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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My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

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What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

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The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

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