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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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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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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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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
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The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.
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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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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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The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
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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 real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.
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No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
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