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Robert M. Pirsig
1928 • American • Philosopher
35
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 35 quotesPeople are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.— Robert M. Pirsig
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.— Robert M. Pirsig
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.— Robert M. Pirsig
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.— Robert M. Pirsig
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.— Robert M. Pirsig
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.— Robert M. Pirsig
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.— Robert M. Pirsig
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.— Robert M. Pirsig
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
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
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.— Robert M. Pirsig
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'— Robert M. Pirsig
The Buddha resides 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.— Robert M. Pirsig
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.— Robert M. Pirsig