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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.

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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The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
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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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The more you read, the more you calm down.
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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
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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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Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things.
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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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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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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
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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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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.
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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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If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
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An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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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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