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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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

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Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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Every good servant does not all commands.

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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

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The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

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Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

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If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

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The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

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