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every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
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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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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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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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
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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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The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
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Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.
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The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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Civilization, or the system or society or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.
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What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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Between the subject and the object lies the value.
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We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.
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Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
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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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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
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