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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

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
Acceptance
Keys
Quality
Understanding

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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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Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
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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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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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