Excellence Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

9 Excellence quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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Robert M. Pirsig’s nine short thoughts on Excellence fuse philosophy with everyday experience, delivering a compact, thought‑provoking glimpse into his contemplative mind.

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Quality is the Buddha.

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Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

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Quality tends to fan out like waves.

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Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

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“The easiest intellectual analogue of pure Quality that people in our environment can understand is that ‘Quality is the response of an…

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“the track of Quality preselects what data we’re going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way…

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“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.…

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“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…

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To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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