All quotes from Alan Watts’

It can well be argued that the major troublemakers in the world today are those people with good intentions.

We know the proverb that “genius is to madness close allied.” And how do we know whether a certain modification in the structure of the whole sensory perceptive system is a sickness, or whether it is the growing edge, some kind of new improvement, of the human being? Well, we have certain very, very rough standards which we apply to this. But we can never be quite sure, because what we call sanity is mob rule. Sanity is simply the vote of organisms that recognize themselves to be human, and they get together and say, “Well, the way we see it is the way it is.”