"When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the……" — Robert M. Pirsig
"When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself."
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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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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the…
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies…
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When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's…
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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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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
— Michelle Bachelet
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
— Bob Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
— Saul Bellow
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
— Theodore Bikel
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We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.
— Julie Bishop
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed…
— Luke Bryan
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The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result…
— Julie Burchill
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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character…
— Nicolas Cage
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