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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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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
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Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
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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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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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Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
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Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
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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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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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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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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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Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
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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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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
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Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
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