537 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

Chris asks, "What are you going to stick to?""Mah guns, boy, mah guns," I tell him. "That’s the Code of the West.

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class.

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.

It's happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green praire farmland and buffeting wind coming together. And soon it is nothing but beautiful warmth and wind and speed and sun down the empty road. The last chills of the morning are thawed by the warm air. Wind and more sun and more smooth road.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.