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Thinking Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- 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…
- The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in…
- 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…
- When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a…
- Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing…
- Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so…
- 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…
- The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does…
- I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained…
- The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
- It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel,…
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