Alan Watts Quotes


Everything is perpetually becoming new.


Citations

Watts, Alan. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety. Pantheon Books, 1951.

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Alan Watts
Alan Watts
  • Born: January 6, 1915
  • Died: November 16, 1973
  • Nationality: British, American
  • Profession: Philosopher

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.