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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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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Philosopher
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
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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 Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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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 culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.
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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
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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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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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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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What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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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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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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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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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
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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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