Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

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

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.