Convention Quotes
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."— Alan Watts
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Meaning of this quote
Words and thoughts are useful agreements, but problems arise when their categories are mistaken for reality itself.
Key takeaway:
Use labels as tools and revise them when experience demands it.
Origin of the quote
Reproduced in There Is Never Anything but the Present (2021), publisher excerpt.
Who actually said this?
VerifiedExact sentence appears in the publisher's excerpt; the excerpt does not identify the original book for each individual selection.
