Quote of Alan Watts - You are the big bang, the...

Biography - Alan Watts:

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

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

Alan Watts

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(French, German)

Vous êtes le big bang, la force originelle de l’univers, en venant comme vous êtes.

Alan Watts

Du bist der Urknall, die ursprüngliche Kraft des Universums, so wie du in Erscheinung trittst.

Alan Watts

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.

Alan Watts

One light of the Sun, even though it be sundered by walls, by mountains, by a myriad other barriers.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?

Plato - Phaedrus

Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts

You, as a human being, you grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree.

Alan Watts

Quotes about strength:

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

strength

I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.

René Descartes - Correspondance avec Élisabeth /

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

...and nobody knows the extent of his strength until he has tried.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

strength

There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.

Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince /

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor W. Adorno - Minima Moralia /

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Quotes about the Universe:

The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.

Voltaire - Les cabales /

Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei - The Assayer /

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière /

Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.

Novalis - Fragments /

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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.

Claude Monet /

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Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything

Gérard de Nerval /

universe

All about the Universe...

Quotes for: Big Bang

Many scientists did not like the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation.

Stephen Hawking

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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.

Alan Watts /

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

Alan Watts /

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts /

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

Alan Watts /

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

Alan Watts /

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