“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“that Quality was the effect of subjects and objects. It was not! He brought out his knife. “The sun of quality,” he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“From that original perception of the Indians as the originators of the American style of speech had come an expansion: The Indians… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around. — 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
