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It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.

Robert M. Pirsig

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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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In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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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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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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Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a stable pattern of inorganic values. The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation
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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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every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
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If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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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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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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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
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We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time.
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