"(What makes his world so hard to see……" — Robert M. Pirsig

"(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too."

— 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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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He… — Teresa of Avila
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is… — Francis Bacon
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in… — Josh Billings
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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than… — Andrea Bocelli
The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking. — Christina Aguilera

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