Alan W. Watts Quotes

In The Widest Sense Of The Word, To Name Is To Interpret Experience By The Past, To Translate It Into Terms Of Memory, To Bind The Unknown Into The System Of The Known. Civilized Man Knows Of Hardly Any Other Way Of Understanding Things. Everybody, Everything, Has To Have Its Label, Its Number, Certificate, Registration, Classification. What Is Not Classified Is Irregular, Unpredictable, And Dangerous. Without Passport, Birth Certificate, Or Membership In Some Nation, One's Existence Is Not Recognized.

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