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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

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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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
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You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.
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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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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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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.
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Data without generalization is just gossip.
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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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Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a stable pattern of inorganic values. The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.
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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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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
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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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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
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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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