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Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig
American Philosopher
Born: Sep 6, 1928
Always First Looking Only People You
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. Robert M. Pirsig
Great Creativity Boredom Period Always Precedes
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig
You Mountains Tops Find Only Up Zen Bring
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Robert M. Pirsig
Work Heart World First Own Head Outward Improve Hands Place Then
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
Truth Best Good You Think Ought Tell Seeing Know Hindsight Scientific Always Scientific Method Go Method Traditional Been Testing Very Where
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. Robert M. Pirsig
People Other Through Unseen Passing Little Moments Keep Lives
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig
Funny You People Funny Thing Insane Insane People Kind About Envies Nobody Opposite Celebrity Being Thing
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
Truth You Looking Go Away Say Puzzling Knocks Go Goes Door Away Thing
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. Robert M. Pirsig
Good You Nothingness Lying About No-One Talk Knows Because Always Zen
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig
Life Future Live Sides Top Some Shallow Goal Mountain Sustain
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. Robert M. Pirsig
Art Motorcycle Peace Achieve Mind Become Peace Of Mind Caring Miniature Mental Rationality Part Primarily Study Maintenance Well Itself Process Really Working Inner Inner Peace Phenomenon
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. Robert M. Pirsig
You Simple Solutions Only Know Arrived After Them
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. Robert M. Pirsig
Alone Others He Even Presence
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell. Robert M. Pirsig
Happy Money Wife Daughter Our Fame
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. Robert M. Pirsig
Soul Eyes Skin Down Saved Everyone Inside He Knows Am His Who Deep Thereby Deep Down Heretic
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.' Robert M. Pirsig
Book People First Say Would Potential Could Had Until Up After Screw Screwed Screwed-Up Published
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil. Robert M. Pirsig
Evil Looking Ways Produces Things
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' Robert M. Pirsig
Everybody Those Says Write Yeah Get Did Authors Oh Oh Yeah Famous Where Want Sequels
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything. Robert M. Pirsig
People Resolve Other Somehow Never Always Anything Each
If you run from technology, it will chase you. Robert M. Pirsig
You Technology Will Run Chase

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