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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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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
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Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
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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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One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.
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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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Between the subject and the object lies the value.
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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
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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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We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.
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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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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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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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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
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