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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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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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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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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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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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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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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.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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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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Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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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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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.
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In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.
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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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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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Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum
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It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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