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Any Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see…
- The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the…
- One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their…
- 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.…
- Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
- "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…
- 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…
- The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware…
- You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.…
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