Social Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

11 Social quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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Pirsig’s reflections on the social world appear here in a handful of lines, giving a succinct feel for his blend of philosophy and everyday experience.

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Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

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Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

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The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none…

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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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Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of…

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The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are…

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A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not,…

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It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys,…

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Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,…

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Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that…

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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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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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