"The menu is not the meal."

Perception, Reality, Truth, Observation

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"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Perception, Humanity, Nature, Duality

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Perception, Truth, Lie, Man

"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Perception, Imagination, Observation, Stillness

"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Perception, Truth, Perspective, Happiness, Wisdom

"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."

Archibald Marwizi, Zimbabwean Author

Perception, Appearance, Presentation, Substance, Opportunity

"You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Perception, Beauty, Love, Feeling

"That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Perception, Confusion, Language, Culture, Understanding

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Perception, Sight, Blindness, World

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Perception, Imagination, Reality, Surprise, Life

"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Perception, World, Wonder, Mind

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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

History

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

Love

"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

Attitude

"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

Faith

"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."

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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."

"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"

"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."

"You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love."

"That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak."

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."

Explore more quotes by Alan Watts

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."

"Saints need sinners."

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."