Alan Watts Quotes

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

That which is cannot be true.

There are many levels of truth.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Man is the measure of all things.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.