Robert M Pirsig Quotes

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.
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.
Quality is the Buddha.
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.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
The only Zen you 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, and then work outward from there.
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
There's no such thing as morality.
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.'
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
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