Best Robert M. Pirsig Quotations
- When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. Called
- In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... Adjusted
- The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does… Buddha
- The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it… Any
- I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that… Argued
- Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best… Believe
- Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance. Final
- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? Anyone
- If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas Better
- The pencil is mightier than the pen. Inspirational
- There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to… Ask
- When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. Always Killed
- The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. Bones
- The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from… Achieve
- The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who… All
- …the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy… Among
- Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. Absence
- We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness,… All
- This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of… Ability
- (What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. Blind
- I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained… Action
- Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive Arrive
- We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".... Emphasis
- The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. Called
- Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. Classic
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