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.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

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.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.