Quote of Alan Watts - Inability to accept the mystic experience...
Biography - Alan Watts:
British philosopher, writer and speaker.
Born: 1915 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1915 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
Translation
(German, French)
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Quotes about nature:
Quotes about danger:
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Quotes about intelligence:
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes for: Civilization
By the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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