There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.