Alan Quotes

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Society is our extended mind and body.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

The worst happens, and life still goes on.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

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's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

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

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

I think everything depends on money.

I've got a dope sense of humor, brah.

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Patience is not a virtue!

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.