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Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
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 real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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Science values static patterns.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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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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That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.
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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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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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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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It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.
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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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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.
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If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
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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 test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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