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Only Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
- Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you…
- The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
- 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,…
- The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- 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.
- I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that…
- 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…
- 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 past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware…
- The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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