Squareness Is Such A Uniquely Intellectual Disease.

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. . . .

The Real University... Has No Specific Location. It Owns No Property, Pays No Salaries, And Receives No Material Dues... The Real University Is A State Of Mind. It Is That Great Heritage Of Rational Thought That Has Been Brought Down To Us Through The Centuries.

Caring About What You Are Doing Is Considered Either Unimportant Or Taken For Granted.

"when Are We Going To Get Going?" Chris Says. "what's Your Hurry?" I Ask. "i Just Want To Get Going." "there's Nothing Up Ahead That's Any Better Than It Is Right Here."

What Is Essential To Understand At This Point Is That Until Now There Was No Such Thing As Mind And Matter, Subject And Object, Form And Substance. Those Divisions Are Just Dialectical Inventions That Came Later...they Are Just Ghosts, Immortal Gods Of The Modern Mythos Which Appear To Us To Be Real Because We Are Within That Mythos. But In Reality They Are Just As Much An Artistic Creation As The Anthropomorphic Gods They Replaced.