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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.
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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Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
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One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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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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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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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 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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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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The more you look, the more you see.
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Civilization, or the system or society or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.
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