For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, “This is I.” When man can name and define himself, he… - Alan Watts

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For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, “This is I.” When man can name and define himself, he feels that he has an identity. Thus he begins to feel, like the word, separate and static, as over against the real, fluid world of nature.