By Alan Watts
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
He who fears to weep should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
