forgotten thoughts words conventions, fatal take conventions seriously — Alan W. Watts, Wisdom Insecurity: A Message Age Anxiety

Alan W. Watts The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money … but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth … In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

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