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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
Autobiographer
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Philosopher
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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Science
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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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What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
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Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.
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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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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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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.
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The more you look, the more you see.
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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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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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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 place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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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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A thing that has no value does not exist.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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