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# Robert M. Pirsig

(1928–2017)   Philosopher   United States

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Robert M. Pirsig was a philosopher from the United States, best known for *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values*.

## Quick Facts About Robert M. Pirsig

Born September 6, 1928

Died April 24, 2017

Nationality United States

Profession Philosopher

Notable works Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Known for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

## About Robert M. Pirsig

His full name was Robert Maynard Pirsig. The books explore questions about values, quality, and how people understand the world, mixing philosophy with everyday stories.

## Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship

##  Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig · Page 5

> [“One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/one-lives-longer-in-order-that-he-may-live-longer-there-is-no-other/)

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> [Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/quality-you-know-what-it-is-yet-you-don-t-know-what-it-is/)

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> [There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/there-s-so-much-talk-about-the-system-and-so-little-understanding/)

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> [Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/squareness-is-such-a-uniquely-intellectual-disease/)

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> [“If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/if-quality-were-dropped-only-rationality-would-remain-unchanged/)

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> [The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-place-to-improve-the-world-is-first-in-one-s-own-heart-and-head/)

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> [“It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/it-s-the-objectivity-the-dualistic-way-of-looking-at-things/)

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> [“The idea that “all men are created equal” is a gift to the world from the American Indian.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-idea-that-all-men-are-created-equal-is-a-gift-to-the-world-from/)

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> [“You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/you-can-t-really-think-hard-about-what-you-re-doing-and-listen-to-the/)

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> [“Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/perhaps-because-of-these-changes-the-stream-of-national-consciousness/)

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[Broader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broader/)

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> [If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/if-you-stare-at-a-wall-from-four-in-the-morning-till-nine-at-night/)

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> [There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/there-is-an-evil-tendency-underlying-all-our-technology-the-tendency/)

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> [(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/what-makes-his-world-so-hard-to-see-clearly-is-not-its-strangeness/)

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> [“I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/i-read-a-sentence-or-two-wait-for-him-to-come-up-with-his-usual/)

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> [“A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, “If you don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/a-slave-mentality-which-had-been-built-into-him-by-years-of-carrot/)

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> [“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outwards from there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-place-to-improve-the-world-is-first-in-one-s-own-heart-and-head-2/)

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> [Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/substance-is-a-subspecies-of-value-when-you-reverse-the-containment/)

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> [“Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/persons-tend-to-think-and-feel-exclusively-in-one-mode-or-the-other/)

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> [One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/one-could-almost-define-life-as-the-organized-disobedience-of-the-law/)

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> [“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/now-we-ve-a-real-intellectual-impasse-our-reason-which-is-supposed-to/)

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> [“Dad?” “What?” A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. “What should I be when I grow up?” The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/dad-what-a-small-bird-rises-from-a-tree-in-front-of-us-what-should-i/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/it-is-always-good-policy-to-tell-the-truth-unless-of-course-you-are/)

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> [“To discover a metaphysical relationship between Quality and the Buddha at some mountaintop of personal experience is very spectacular. And very unimportant.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/to-discover-a-metaphysical-relationship-between-quality-and-the/)

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> [“You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/you-see-things-vacationing-on-a-motorcycle-in-a-way-that-is-2/)

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> [Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/any-person-of-any-philosophic-persuasion-who-sits-on-a-hot-stove-will/)

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> [“Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you’re trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/usually-i-say-your-mind-gets-stuck-when-you-re-trying-to-do-too-many/)

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> [A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/a-culture-bearing-book-like-a-mule-bears-the-culture-on-its-back-no/)

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[Attitude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attitude/)

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> [“As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/as-a-result-of-his-experiments-he-concluded-that-imitation-was-a-real/)

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[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/quality-is-better-seen-up-at-the-timberline-than-here-obscured-by/)

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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/)

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> [We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/we-want-to-make-good-time-but-for-us-now-this-is-measured-with-the/)

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> [“Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/other-people-can-talk-about-how-to-expand-the-destiny-of-mankind-i/)

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> [Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/reality-is-always-the-moment-of-vision-before-the-intellectualization/)

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> [Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/objects-are-inorganic-and-biological-values-subjects-are-social-and/)

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> [What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/what-we-think-of-as-reality-is-a-continuous-synthesis-of-elements/)

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> [Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/is-it-hard-not-if-you-have-the-right-attitudes-its-having-the-right/)

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> [Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/talk-about-rationality-can-get-very-confusing-unless-the-things-with/)

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> [When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/when-you-want-to-hurry-something-that-means-you-no-longer-care-about/)

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> [The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-solutions-all-are-simple-after-you-have-arrived-at-them-but-they/)

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[Problem solving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/problem-solving/)

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> [“The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-cutting-edge-of-this-instant-right-here-and-now-is-always-nothing/)

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[Cutting edge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cutting-edge/)

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## Robert M. Pirsig by topic

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