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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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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Cliches and stereotypes such as beatnik or hippie have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.
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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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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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... 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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Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
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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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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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