"The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that……" — Robert M. Pirsig
"The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is."
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Robert M. Pirsig
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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
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