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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
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Philosopher
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
Acceptance
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Quality
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And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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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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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.
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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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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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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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The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
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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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You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
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