Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn’t a human invention.
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it’s a shame more people don’t switch over to it.
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
Quality isn’t a thing. It is an event.
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one’s self.
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.
Data without generalization is just gossip.
If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.
Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.
Civilization, or “the system” or “society” or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.
The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.