Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.