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People Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation…
- I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to…
- To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even…
- For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all…
- When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
- Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
- 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…
- We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
- The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
- Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content…
- Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think…
- When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
- Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best…
- The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who…
- It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which…
- 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.…
- The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle