You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a… — 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
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — 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
“It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and… — 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
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission… — 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
“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
I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you… — 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
“To the untrained eye ego-climbing and selfless climbing may appear identical. Both kinds of climbers place one foot in front of the… — 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
