Alan Watts

Quote of Alan Watts - Just as true humor is laughter...

Biography - Alan Watts:

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

United Kingdom

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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(French, German)

Tout comme le véritable humour consiste à rire de soi, la vraie humanité consiste en la connaissance de soi.

So wie wahrer Humor das Lachen über sich selbst ist, ist wahre Menschlichkeit das Wissen über sich selbst.

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Quotes for: laughter

Quotes for: laughter

You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.

Hermann Hesse /

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin /

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Phillips Feynman /

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Quotes for: Human nature

Quotes about human nature:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

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

Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation /

I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.

Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos /

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Bertrand Russell /

Be humanity evermore our goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

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Quotes for: oneself

Quotes about oneself:

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir /

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Quotes for: knowledge

Quotes for: knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Carl Gustav Jung /

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein /

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;

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Quotes for: humour

Quotes about humour:

You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.

Hermann Hesse /

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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Now, true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.

Hermann Hesse /

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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.

Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety /

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.

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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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