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Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “For this you keep a lab notebook. Everything gets written down, formally, so that you know at all times where you are, where you’ve been, where you’re going and where you want to get.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “If someone’s ungrateful and you tell him he’s ungrateful, okay, you’ve called him a name. You haven’t solved anything.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing’s quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you’ll never regret.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Good is a noun rather than an adjective.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “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. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,” a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. If you haven’t got it there’s no way the motorcycle can possibly be fixed. But if you have got it and know how to keep it there’s absolutely no way in this whole world that motorcycle can keep from getting fixed. It’s bound to happen. Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is the gumption.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “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.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The real cycle you’re working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be “out there” and the person that appears to be “in here” are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Peace of mind isn’t at all superficial, really,” I expound. “It’s the whole thing. That which produces it is good maintenance; that which disturbs it is poor maintenance. What we call workability of the machine is just an objectification of this peace of mind. The ultimate test’s always your own serenity. If you don’t have this when you start and maintain it while you’re working you’re likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Degeneracy can be fun but it’s hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “When cleaning I do it the way people go to church – not so much to discover anything new, although I’m alert for new things, but mainly to reacquaint myself with the familiar. It’s nice to go over familiar paths.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn’t a human invention.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Technology is blamed for a lot of this loneliness, since the loneliness is certainly associated with the newer technological devices – TV, jets, freeways and so on – but I hope it’s been made plain that the real evil isn’t the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “A thing that has no value does not exist.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. 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.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “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.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole day ahead of us, we’re almost to the mountains, it’s a good day to be alive. It’s this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Quality tends to fan out like waves.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It’s psychic distance.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Familiarity can blind too.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Like that timber wolf on the mountain he had a kind of animal courage. He went his own way with unconcern for consequences that sometimes stunned people, and stuns me now to hear about it. He did not often swerve to right or to left. I’ve discovered that. But this courage didn’t arise from any idealistic idea of self-sacrifice, only from the intensity of his pursuit, and there was nothing noble about it.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “You always suppress momentary anger at something you deeply and permanently hate.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outwards from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “But it’s better to know a lot and say little, I think, than know a little and say a lot.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “You go up the mountaintop and all you’re gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The statement “To travel is better than to arrive” comes back to mind again and stays. We have been traveling and now we will arrive. For me a period of depression comes on when I reach a temporary goal like this and have to reorient myself toward another one.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “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.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.”
Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.”
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