That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
"When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, water,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
