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Robert M Pirsig Quotes

Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people’s minds. It’s best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you’re safe. That doesn’t leave you very much to believe in, but that’s scientific too Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation Picture Quote #1

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience Picture Quote #1

I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind Picture Quote #1

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon Picture Quote #1

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Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled Picture Quote #1

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane? Picture Quote #1

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level’s role in keeping the biological level under control Picture Quote #1

... 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 Picture Quote #1

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What’s the motive? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect Picture Quote #1

The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is Picture Quote #1

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn’t any good Picture Quote #1

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, ‘Oh yeah.’ Picture Quote #1

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around Picture Quote #1

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman’s game, though that is changing Picture Quote #1

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling Picture Quote #1

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world Picture Quote #1

It’s better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North Picture Quote #1

The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there Picture Quote #1

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses Picture Quote #1

The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite Picture Quote #1

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Who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? Picture Quote #1

Quality... You know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is Picture Quote #1

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions Picture Quote #1

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives Picture Quote #1

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it Picture Quote #1

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic Picture Quote #1

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Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people’s minds. It’s best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you’re safe. That doesn’t leave you very much to believe in, but that’s scientific too (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) 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? (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane? (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level’s role in keeping the biological level under control. (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) Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What’s the motive? (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) Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is. (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn’t any good. (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, ‘Oh yeah.’ (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) I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman’s game, though that is changing (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) From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) It’s better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North. (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Quality... You know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)

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