Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig
Robert Maynard Pirsigis an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesand Lila: An Inquiry into Morals...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth6 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual artist scientist
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
spiritual sight people
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
knowledge independent learning
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
attitude ifs hard
Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
moving-forward moving space
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
failure self effort
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
change success leadership
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
god atheist people
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
inspirational memories past
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
mean unique reality
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.
inspirational travel littles
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.
moving car gone
In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. 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.
war body principles
An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation