"What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal……" — Robert M. Pirsig
"What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow."
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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
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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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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole…
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It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
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