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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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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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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What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.
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Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
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When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
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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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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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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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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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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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Science values static patterns.
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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
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