A Thing That Has No Value Does

Why, For Example, Should A Group Of Simple, Stable Compounds Of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, And Nitrogen Struggle For Billions Of Years To Organize Themselves Into A Professor Of Chemistry? What's The Motive?

Any Person Of Any Philosophic Persuasion Who Sits On A Hot Stove Will Verify Without Any Intellectual Argument Whatsoever That He Is In An Undeniably Low-quality Situation: That The Value Of His Predicament Is Negative. This Low Quality Is Not Just A Vague, Woolly-headed, Crypto-religious, Metaphysical Abstraction. It Is An Experience. It Is Not A Judgment About An Experience. It Is Not A Description Of Experience. The Value Itself Is An Experience. As Such It Is Completely Predictable. It Is Verifiable By Anyone Who Cares To Do So.

When You Look Directly At An Insane Man All You See Is A Reflection Of Your Own Knowledge That He's Insane, Which Is Not To See Him At All.

Is It Hard?' Not If You Have The Right Attitudes. Its Having The Right Attitudes Thats Hard.

Analytic And Romantic Understanding Should Be United At A Basic Level. Reassimilate The Passions From Which The Rational Mind Fled.