"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final……" — Robert M. Pirsig

"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."

— Robert M. Pirsig

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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the…
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies…
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's…
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to…
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of…
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit…
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his…
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

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