Alan Watts Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Pain, Mental Health

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

• We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

  Alan Watts

  Rushing, Looking Forward, Enough

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.31, New World Library

• The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Struggle, Killing

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

• We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Class, Play

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.58, Souvenir Press

• The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Jobs, Men

• Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Pleasure, Materials

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.59, Souvenir Press

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