"When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf,……" — Robert M. Pirsig
"When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten."
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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig has 135 quotes on this site.
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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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A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his…
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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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