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Biography - Alan Watts:

British philosopher, writer and speaker.
Born: 1915 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wir können nicht für Angenehmes empfindlicher werden, ohne auch für Schmerz empfindlicher zu sein.

French
Nous ne pouvons pas être plus sensible au plaisir sans être plus sensible à la douleur.




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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.




Quotes for: pleasure


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Quotes about pleasure:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.





There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.





The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures.





The pleasure from hard effort is the sweetest.





We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.











Quotes

Quotes for: pain


I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.





Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.





Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.





To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.





I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.





No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.











Quotes

Alan Watts also said...


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.





Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.





No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.





Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.












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