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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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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Philosopher
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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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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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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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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The more you look, the more you see.
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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 real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
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Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.
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You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.
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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
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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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The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.
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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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Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
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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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Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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