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Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
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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Thing
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
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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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Science values static patterns.
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The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.
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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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Between the subject and the object lies the value.
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From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
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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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When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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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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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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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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Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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What's new? is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.
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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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Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
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