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The more you look, the more you see.

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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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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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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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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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
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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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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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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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Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
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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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