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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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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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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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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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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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The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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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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every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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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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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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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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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
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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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