Life and death are not two opposed forces; they are simply two ways of looking at the same force, for the movement of change is as much the builder a… - Alan Watts

We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.

We must repeat: memory, thought, language, and logic are essential to human life. They are one half of sanity. But a person, a society, which is only half sane is insane. To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words — to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about.

"Întrebări precum "De ce există universul?" sunt o nevroză intelectuală, o folosire greșită a cuvintelor, în sensul că, deși întrebarea pare rațională, ea este de fapt la fel de absurdă ca și, de pildă, "Unde este universul?

We learn nothing of very much importance when it can be explained entirely in terms of past experience. If it were possible to understand all things in terms of what we know already, we could convey the sense of color to a blind man with nothing but sound, taste, touch, and smell.