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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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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation
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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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A thing that has no value does not exist.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
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We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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What's new? is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.
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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah which is to demean one's self.
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From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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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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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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Science values static patterns.
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A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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