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
reading calm calm-down
The more you read, the more you calm down.
needs asks zen-motorcycle-maintenance
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
travel want good-times
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....
war buddhism reality
…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.
pens pencils
The pencil is mightier than the pen.
ideas mind might
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
motorcycle finals maintenance
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.
believe law people
Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too.
past faces forget
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?
names ungrateful okay
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
moving humility space
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
mother daughter wife
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
distance loneliness psychics
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
reality vision moments
Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.