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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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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
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The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
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That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.
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The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
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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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A thing that has no value does not exist.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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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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No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
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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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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too.
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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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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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