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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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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts…
— Roger Bacon
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To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.
— Louis Althusser
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Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men…
— Jack Donovan
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But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he…
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
— Aristotle
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Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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To philosophize is to doubt.
— Michel de Montaigne
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according…
— Saint Augustine
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Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...
— Rohinton Mistry
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot…
— Zhuangzi
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