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The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
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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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.
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every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
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We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time.
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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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What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
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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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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
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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 bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
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