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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

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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Vision
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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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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
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In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.
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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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Science values static patterns.
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The more you look, the more you see.
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
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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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