“In presenting ideas I exaggerate. The reason for this is that, insofar as I present ideas, whereas the actual content of the philosophy is not ideas but experience, these ideas are intended to act as correctives.

And so when you are walking a tightrope, you learn balancing. And so if you're in danger of falling in a certain direction, you throw the weight the other way.

And there are all sorts of funny tricks to balancing, as you know when you ride a bicycle, you turn the front wheel in the direction in which you're falling. Whereas the person who doesn't know how to ride a bicycle tends to turn the wheel the other way, so he falls over.

So in this kind of way, what I'm talking about is always a corrective to whatever is a dominant current idea.”

— Alan Watts, Time And The Future