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

A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.

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

What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

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

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.