Metaphysics Is A Restaurant Where They Give

Data Without Generalization Is Just Gossip.

In A Car You're Always In A Compartment, And Because You're Used To It You Don't Realize That Through That Car Window Everything You See Is Just More Tv. You're A Passive Observer And It Is All Moving By You Boringly In A Frame. On A Cycle The Frame Is Gone. You're Completely In Contact With It All. You're In The Scene, Not Just Watching It Anymore, And The Sense Of Presence Is Overwhelming.

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.

It's Better To Live With A Sad Truth Than With All The Happy Progress Talk You Get Up Here In The North.

Quality Is Better Seen Up At The Timberline Than Here Obscured By Smoky Windows And Oceans Of Words, And He Sees That What He Is Talking About Can Never Really Be Accepted Here Because To See It One Has To Be Free Of Social Authority And This Is An Institution Of Social Authority. Quality For Sheep Is What The Shepherd Says. And If You Take A Sheep And Put It Up At The Timberline At Night When The Wind Is Roaring, That Sheep Will Be Panicked Half To Death And Will Call And Call Until The Shepherd Comes, Or Comes The Wolf.