J. C. Watts Quotes

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

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.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Duality is always secretly unity.

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.

I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.

I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

Economy is the thief of time.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.