Best Robert M. Pirsig Sayings
- The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal.… Alternatives
- Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Any
- Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. Inspirational
- "When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's… Ahead
- The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Bring
- Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. Alone
- The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. Brainy
- To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Future
- The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. Away Puzzling
- We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. Friendship
- Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. Food
- The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. All
- Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing… Been
- If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting… Close
- One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. Advantageous
- Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. Abstraction
- The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Celebrity
- For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. Every Fact
- You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and… Been
- Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard. Attitude
- Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content… All
- Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so… Always Culturally
- Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think… Destiny
- If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. Called
- Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often… All
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