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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
Autobiographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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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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The more you read, the more you calm down.
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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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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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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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(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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The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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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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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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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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We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.
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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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