Nature Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

18 Nature quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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Pirsig’s reflections weave the natural world into his broader quest for meaning. Across eighteen entries, he probes how scenery can illuminate the concept of quality and the art of living.

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“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete…

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“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete…

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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually…

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“A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye…

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“I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just…

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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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Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed…

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One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead,…

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I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and…

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“Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of…

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The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The…

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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it…

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Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as…

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“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't…

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“The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology. That’s impossible. The…

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“The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And…

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“The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of…

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“The nature of our culture is such that if you were to look for instruction in how to do any of these…

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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he…

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

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I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

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Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:…

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There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously…

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“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment…

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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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If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will…

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