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Robert M Pirsig Quotes

It’s so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it Picture Quote #1

That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel Picture Quote #1

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself Picture Quote #1

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It’s psychic distance Picture Quote #1

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite Picture Quote #1

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted Picture Quote #1

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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there Picture Quote #1

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling Picture Quote #1

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top Picture Quote #1

Making... An art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology Picture Quote #1

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included Picture Quote #1

That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There’s no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone’s mind Picture Quote #1

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The mythos. The mythos is insane. That’s what he believed. The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the quality of this world is unreal, that is insane! Picture Quote #1

When it is known that Plato put his own words in Socrates’ mouth (Aristotle says this) there should be no reason to doubt that he could have put his own words into other mouths too Picture Quote #1

The rain has lifted enough so that we can see the horizon now, a sharp line demarking the light grey of the sky and the darker grey of the water Picture Quote #1

The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way Picture Quote #1

Poor rhetoric, once learning itself, now becomes reduced to the teaching of mannerisms and forms, Aristotelian forms, for writing, as if these mattered Picture Quote #1

Once it’s stated that the dialectic comes before anything else, this statement itself becomes a dialectical entity, subject to dialectical question Picture Quote #1

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Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu and no food Picture Quote #1

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn’t any good Picture Quote #1

Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is Picture Quote #1

Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all Picture Quote #1

That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface Picture Quote #1

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food Picture Quote #1

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The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands Picture Quote #1

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around Picture Quote #1

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty Picture Quote #1

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward Picture Quote #1

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened Picture Quote #1

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself Picture Quote #1

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It’s so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It’s psychic distance (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Making... An art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There’s no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone’s mind (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The mythos. The mythos is insane. That’s what he believed. The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the quality of this world is unreal, that is insane! (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) When it is known that Plato put his own words in Socrates’ mouth (Aristotle says this) there should be no reason to doubt that he could have put his own words into other mouths too (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The rain has lifted enough so that we can see the horizon now, a sharp line demarking the light grey of the sky and the darker grey of the water (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Poor rhetoric, once learning itself, now becomes reduced to the teaching of mannerisms and forms, Aristotelian forms, for writing, as if these mattered (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Once it’s stated that the dialectic comes before anything else, this statement itself becomes a dialectical entity, subject to dialectical question (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu and no food (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn’t any good (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened (Robert M Pirsig Quotes) The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself (Robert M Pirsig Quotes)

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