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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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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
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And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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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 a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
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Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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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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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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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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Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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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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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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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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