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Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine y... by Alan Watts

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Alan Watts
ego purpose letting-go

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Alan Watts
definitions purpose reality

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

Alan Watts
confused purpose inspiring

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

Alanis Morissette
who-i-am purpose people
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying i... by Albert Camus

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus
purpose writing civilization

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

Albert Camus
sorrow purpose memories

I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

Albert Einstein
powerful purpose inspiration

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

Albert Einstein
gita purpose inspiration
Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you... by Albert Einstein

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

Albert Einstein
live-with-purpose purpose people

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Albert Einstein
political development purpose

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

Albert Einstein
purpose knowing memorable
Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose. by Albert Einstein

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

Albert Einstein
mere purpose thinking

We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

Albert Einstein
weapons purpose science

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Albert Einstein
daily-life purpose sake

Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

Albert Ellis
purpose soul goal

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

Albert Goldbarth
purpose identity science
I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on p... by Alberta Hunter

I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

Alberta Hunter
has-beens purpose people

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

Alberto Manguel
soon-enough teeth purpose

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

Alberto Moravia
purpose thinking

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

Aldous Huxley
moments purpose life
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