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The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
You go up the mountaintop and all you’re gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
If someone’s ungrateful and you tell him he’s ungrateful, okay, you’ve called him a name. You haven’t solved anything (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn’t get his ideas from other people all around him (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
In the temple of science are many mansions... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
What’s wrong with technology is that it’s not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
... the laws of physics and of logic... the number system... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth, “ and so it goes away. Puzzling (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
One thing about pioneers that you don’t hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)