City life Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

“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

“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

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

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

— Robert M. Pirsig

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

“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

“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

“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

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

— Robert M. Pirsig

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