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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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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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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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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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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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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 more you read, the more you calm down.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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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 Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
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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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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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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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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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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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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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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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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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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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