Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
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Tools such as these, as well as the tools of language and thought, are of real use to men only if they are awake — not lost in the dreamland of past and future, but in the closest touch with that point of experience where reality can alone be discovered: this moment.
[I]n trying to figure out the brain, the obstacle is that we have no finer instrument than the brain itself for the purpose. The greatest hindrance to objective knowledge is our own subjective presence.
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all belief is fervent hope, and thus a cover-up for doubt and uncertainty — religions
