Quote of Alan Watts - The reason we have poverty is...
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
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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Quotes for: imagination
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Quotes about poverty:
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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