Alan Watts Quotes, Gold Quotes, Use Quotes

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.

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Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.

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A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

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Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

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Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

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I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

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Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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