Alan Watts Quotes

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Most of the time, when someone tells you something, and it makes sense, it just makes sense. And that's that. But sometimes it really doesn't make sense.

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.