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title: "18 Way Quotes By Robert M. Pirsig"
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> [If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/if-there-were-only-one-person-in-the-world-is-there-any-way-he-could/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/it-s-nice-to-start-journeys-pleasantly-even-when-you-know-they-won-t/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-bones-and-flesh-and-legal-statistics-are-the-garments-worn-by-the/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-good-was-not-a-form-of-reality-it-was-reality-itself-ever/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-buddha-takes-no-position-on-gods-he-suggests-they-may-exist-or/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-way-to-see-what-looks-good-and-understand-the-reasons-it-looks/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/quality-tends-to-fan-out-like-waves-the-quality-job-he-didn-t-think/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-sun-of-quality-does-not-revolve-around-the-subjects-and-objects/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/making-an-art-out-of-your-technological-life-is-the-way-to-solve-the/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/what-s-wrong-with-technology-is-that-it-s-not-connected-in-any-real/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-real-evil-isn-t-the-objects-of-technology-but-the-tendency-of/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/education-should-not-be-fun-you-are-being-brought-up-into-society-and/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-thing-to-understand-is-that-if-you-are-going-to-reform-society/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-tv-scientist-who-mutters-sadly-the-experiment-is-a-failure-we/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/of-course-the-laws-of-science-contain-no-matter-and-have-no-energy/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/schools-teach-you-to-imitate-if-you-don-t-imitate-what-the-teacher/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-way-to-solve-the-conflict-between-human-values-and-technology/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/to-speak-of-certain-government-and-establishment-institutions-as-the/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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## Other authors on Way

## More by Robert M. Pirsig

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/and-from-time-to-time-you-find-your-county-road-takes-you-onto-a-two/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [“I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/i-started-to-roll-over-for-more-sleep-but-heard-a-rooster-crowing-and/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-buddha-the-godhead-resides-quite-as-comfortably-in-the-circuits/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/even-though-quality-cannot-be-defined-you-know-what-quality-is/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/i-suppose-philosophy-is-historically-not-a-woman-s-game-though-that/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/up-until-my-first-book-was-published-i-had-all-this-potential-people/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/there-is-a-perennial-classical-question-that-asks-which-part-of-the/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/of-the-value-traps-the-most-widespread-and-pernicious-is-value/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/historically-mystics-have-claimed-that-for-a-true-understanding-of/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/what-s-emerging-from-the-pattern-of-my-own-life-is-the-for-belief/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/to-speak-of-certain-government-and-establishment-institutions-as-the/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/if-a-revolution-destroys-a-systematic-government-but-the-systematic/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-only-zen-you-can-find-on-the-tops-of-mountains-is-the-zen-you/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/only-social-patterns-can-control-biological-patterns-and-the/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

> [Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/even-in-the-presence-of-others-he-was-completely-alone/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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