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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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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Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
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In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.
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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 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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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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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 think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.
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The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
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That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.
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Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.
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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
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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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