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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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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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If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
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Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
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Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
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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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Between the subject and the object lies the value.
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The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.
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The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.
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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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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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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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