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

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.

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.