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
running technology ifs
If you run from technology, it will chase you,
liars doors going-away
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.
thinking bridges hammers
It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.
government patterns systematic
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
evaluation facts ability
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
blessed thinking insanity
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.
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.