The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

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

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.

The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.

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.