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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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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If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
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The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.
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Civilization, or the system or society or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.
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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
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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 look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
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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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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.
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To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.
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Cliches and stereotypes such as beatnik or hippie have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
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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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Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
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You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.
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