Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way, like the problem of cause and effect. Mak… - Alan Watts

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way,

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way, like the problem of cause and effect.

[A]ny system which leaves the individual upon one horn of the dualistic dilemma is at best the achievement of courageous despair.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can be more insidious than bronze idols