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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
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.
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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
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Data without generalization is just gossip.
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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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Between the subject and the object lies the value.
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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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Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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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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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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The more you look, the more you see.
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Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
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One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.
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It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...
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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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