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The more you read, the more you calm down.

Robert M. Pirsig

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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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The more you look, the more you see.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
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What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man.
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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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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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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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From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
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