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A thing that has no value does not exist.
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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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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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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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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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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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
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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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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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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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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
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