Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. -Robert M. Pirsig

 

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.


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The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.

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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.

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

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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.

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. -Robert M. 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...

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