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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
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
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The more you read, the more you calm down.
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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Between the subject and the object lies the value.
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Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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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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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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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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We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time.
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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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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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Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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