Author: Robert M. Pirsig

Quotes

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

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

To live only 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.

- Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Robert M. Pirsig

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 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

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

- Robert M. Pirsig

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

- Robert M. Pirsig

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

- Robert M. Pirsig

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