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Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.
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You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness). Familiarity can blind you too.
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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness). Familiarity can blind you too.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient; Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient; Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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.
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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.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the centre of it all.
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Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the centre of it all.
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
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Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
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?
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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?
There's no such thing as morality.
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There's no such thing as morality.
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