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Category: Robert M. Pirsig

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 Robert M. Pirsig

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

3 December 2020 Robert M. Pirsig

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

3 December 2020 Robert M. Pirsig

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

3 December 2020 Robert M. Pirsig

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.

3 December 2020 Robert M. Pirsig

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

3 December 2020 Robert M. Pirsig

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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