Alan Watts Quotes, Decision Quotes, Doe Quotes

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

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The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

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The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

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With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.

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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

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Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

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