Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.