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
“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
“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of… — 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
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
“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
