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Inspirational Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
- Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
- The more you look, the more you see.
- We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.
- It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
- If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
- The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
- Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
- That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
- When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
- Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
- When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
- New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
- every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
- Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
- "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 only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
- The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
- One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
- Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
- If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
- The pencil is mightier than the pen.
- When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
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