"We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves."

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Alan Watts

#Nature Quotes #War Quotes #Desire Quotes

“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”
“I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.”
“There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“All audiences should be slightly off balance.”
“The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
“I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.”
“If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.”

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