"We take a handful of sand from the……" — Robert M. Pirsig

"We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world."

— Robert M. Pirsig

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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn… — Richard Bach
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my… — Scott Adams
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error… — Joko Beck
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father… — Ezra Taft Benson
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake
The eye altering, alters all. — William Blake

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