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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.
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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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.
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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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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
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If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
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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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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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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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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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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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Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.
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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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every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we 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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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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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.
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