Robert M Pirsig Quotes

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
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.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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.
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
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.
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
If you run from technology, it will chase you.
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.
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