Truth Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

10 Truth quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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Pirsig’s philosophical wanderings often circle back to the quality of experience. In ten concise lines he examines truth as something we encounter in the act of living, not merely as a concept.

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It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

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It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and…

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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It…

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's…

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Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think…

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The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is…

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Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and…

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“The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed,…

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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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“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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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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