Mental Reflection Is So Much More Interesting

Quality Isn't A Thing. It Is An Event.

Talk About Rationality Can Get Very Confusing Unless The Things With Which Rationality Deals Are Also Included.

You Look At Where You're Going And Where You Are And It Never Makes Sense, But Then You Look Back At Where You've Been And A Pattern Seems To Emerge.

A Culture-bearing Book, Like A Mule, Bears The Culture On Its Back. No One Should Sit Down To Write One Deliberately. Culture-bearing Books Appear Almost Accidentally, Like A Sudden Surge In The Stock Market. There Are Books Of High Quality That Are A Part Of The Culture, But That Is Not The Same. They Are A Part Of It. They Aren't Carrying It Anywhere. They May Talk About Insanity Sympathetically, For Example, Because That's The Standard Cultural Attitude. But They Don't Carry Any Suggestion That Insanity Might Be Something Other Than Sickness Or Degeneracy.

It's So Hard When Contemplated In Advance, And So Easy When You Do It.