"One geometry cannot be more true than another;……" — Robert M. Pirsig
"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig has 135 quotes on this site.
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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…
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies…
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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…
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When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to…
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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…
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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…
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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit…
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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…
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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison…
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I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the…
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
— Henri Poincare
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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
— Sun Tzu
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The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock.…
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces…
— Leo Tolstoy
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to…
— Mickey Rourke
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
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