Alan W. Watts: "When there is no..."

"When there is no vision, the people shall perish."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan W. Watts: "Almost all best ideas..."

"Almost all best ideas come when thinking has stopped."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan W. Watts: "Had we never known..."

"Had we never known joy, it would be impossible to identify sorrow."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan W. Watts: "To pursue the future..."

"To pursue the future is to pursue a constantly retreating phantom and the faster you chase it, the faster it runs."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan W. Watts: "Human desire tends to..."

"Human desire tends to be insatiable."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan W. Watts: "As the years go..."

"As the years go by, there seem to be fewer and fewer rocks to which we can hold – fewer things which we can regard as absolutely right and true and fixed for all time."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan W. Watts: "By all outward appearances..."

"By all outward appearances, our life is a spark of light between one eternal darkness and another."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan W. Watts: "You do not play..."

"You do not play a sonata to reach the final chord...
And if the meanings of things were simply in the ends,
composers would write nothing but finales."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity