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Robert M. Pirsig
American
Philosopher
About the author
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Mountains
#Zen
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Heart
#World
#First
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Truth
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Experience
#Quality
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Geometry
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Food
#Metaphysics
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Life
#Future
#Goal
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Truth
#Testing
#Hindsight
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,
American
Philosopher
#Truth
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#People
#Moments
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig,
American
Philosopher
#Life
#Future
#Goal