Adjectives Quote by Robert M. Pirsig Download Open image “Good is a noun rather than an adjective.” — Robert M. Pirsig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adjectives Nouns Unity
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power. — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
Well, what does "good" mean anyway? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“Good” has been used for almost a thousand years as an adverb, even though usage commentators and peevers have condemned this use. Dictionaries, he… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“And from time to time you find your “county road” takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
