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Robert Pirsig

"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" — Robert Pirsig
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"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert Pirsig
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"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know"" it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths..." — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert Pirsig
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"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives." — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert M. Pirsig
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"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone." — Robert Pirsig
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions." — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert Pirsig
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"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
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"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." — Robert M. Pirsig
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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." — Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert Pirsig

"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food." — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert Pirsig

"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. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself." — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert Pirsig
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"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there" — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert Pirsig
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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." — Robert Pirsig
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"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." — Robert M. Pirsig
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