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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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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.
— Perry Farrell
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Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that…
— Martin Rees
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It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us…
— George Santayana
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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the…
— Penelope Lively
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People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
— Daniel Pauly
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I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide…
— Sophia Loren
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Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
— Sarah Dessen
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I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well,…
— Alan Moore
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There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
— Angela Carter
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