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

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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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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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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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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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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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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
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Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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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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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too.
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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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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
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