“Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. — 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… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“but it can’t tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions?… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Your mind was already thinking ahead to what you would do when the cover plate was off, and so it takes a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Romantic Quality always correlated with instantaneous impressions. Square Quality always involved multiple considerations that extended over a period of time. Romantic Quality… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“We’re living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you’re trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What you need is an hypothesis for how you’re going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn’t… — 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
“If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then you may be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas. The… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that… — 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
