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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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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One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
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... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.
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Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things.
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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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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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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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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.
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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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Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.
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That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.
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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
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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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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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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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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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