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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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That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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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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... 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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Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a stable pattern of inorganic values. The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.
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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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No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
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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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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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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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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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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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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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Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
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The more you look, the more you see.
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Science values static patterns.
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