“You don’t have to go fishing, of course, to fix your motorcycle.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It’s… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Your mind was already thinking ahead to what you would do when the cover plate was off, and so it takes a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“And from time to time you find your “county road” takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
