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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
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Philosopher
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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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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The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.
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Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.
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Data without generalization is just gossip.
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So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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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 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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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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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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Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a stable pattern of inorganic values. The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.
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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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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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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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Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum
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In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.
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