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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Source : Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.37, New World Library
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“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
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“It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.”
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“There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.”
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“In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.”
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“The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.”
Source : "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.
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“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
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“Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.”
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
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“We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.”
Source : "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.
