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One Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
- To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even…
- 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…
- What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion,…
- Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does…
- A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture…
- One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys…
- every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
- The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
- One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
- When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
- In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
- It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which…
- The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work…
- 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.…
- Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from…
- The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
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