16 ordspråk av Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
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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.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all
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The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
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The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there
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The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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The solutions all are simple / after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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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.
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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