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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

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
Quality
Understanding

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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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The more you look, the more you see.
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time.
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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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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.
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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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Between the subject and the object lies the value.
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It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
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The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.
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Data without generalization is just gossip.
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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The more you read, the more you calm down.
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
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The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.
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The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.
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