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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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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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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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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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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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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
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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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Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.
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You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.
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So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?
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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.
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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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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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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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