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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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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Philosopher
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.
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Cliches and stereotypes such as beatnik or hippie have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
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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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It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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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 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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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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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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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
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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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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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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.
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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 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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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
Robert M. Pirsig
The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
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