For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.


The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307807878

Alan Watts Quotes

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in...

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in...

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in...

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in...