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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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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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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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It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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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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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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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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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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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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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
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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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