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And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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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Science values static patterns.
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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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Data without generalization is just gossip.
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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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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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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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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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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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The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
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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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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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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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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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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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