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.

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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

What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.