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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

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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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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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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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
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Science values static patterns.
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It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...
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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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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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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.
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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.
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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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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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…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.
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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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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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