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Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.
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No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
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A thing that has no value does not exist.
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So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.
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Science values static patterns.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.
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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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every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
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What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man.
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Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too.
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In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
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