Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Essentially these militants must want to destroy the universities because they do not want to be students. Because to be a student means to prepare oneself to do something more worthwhile in the future. The militant student's cry is for action now, not preparation for action later. In this real sense he is no longer a student at all, since he clearly rejects knowledge as a precondition of any meaningful activity. Truth, moreover, is no longer sought, but "revealed"; the concept for free speech and free thought is demonstrated as much in his actions as in his rods. Were...
...communication, since that presupposes some conscious relation between at least two people. I suppose that the reason for anxiety over the death of music is that the avant-garde will lead unswervingly to solipsism, in which each sound in heard not in terms of itself, but in terms of oneself. In solipsistic art, there would be no style, only epiphanies. But the death of music seems impossible so long as there are sounds to be heard, minds to give them personal texture, and wills to give them meaning...
...intellectuals to study and teach that vision. What they should remember, though, is their own tendency to hope more innocently and despair more deeply than others. Flaubert had some good advice for intellectuals of every stripe: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself." That risk is unusually high among today's divided intellectuals; perhaps if they lowered their own idiocy level, the rest of society would follow...
Under normal circumstances, one liberates oneself through quiet thought or tremendous internal crises. Loud acid rock may help some people, it may hinder others...
ALAN WATTS -- The author of lots of books on Eastern religions, friend of Richard Alpert, and who writes in psychotherapy East and West: "Play is not to be taken seriously, or, in other words, ideas of the world and of oneself which are social conventions and institutions are not to be confused with reality. The rules of communication are not necessarily