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Robert M. Pirsig has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is…
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at…
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When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which…
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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.
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The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to…
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it…
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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow,…
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A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness,…
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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular…
— Peter Straub
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I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
— Rupert Sheldrake
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But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go…
— M. John Harrison
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Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and…
— Tony Conrad
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