"What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is……" — Robert M. Pirsig
"What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . ."
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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
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