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I turn my head from side to side.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Real science and real philosophy are not guided by preconceptions of what subjects are important to consider. That
— Robert M. Pirsig
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty ...
— Robert M. Pirsig
If one person complains he just makes it that much harder for the others. They've got stamina. They know how to keep on going.
— Robert M. Pirsig
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
— Robert M. Pirsig
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time" ...
— Robert M. Pirsig
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
As long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible.
— Robert M. Pirsig
But of course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the sides.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Just a sort of unexplained sadness that comes each afternoon when the new day is gone forever and there's nothing ahead but increasing darkness.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
— Robert M. Pirsig
It's all taking the customer's money and giving him exactly what he wants and then leaving him poorer than when he started.
— Robert M. Pirsig
You always suppress momentary anger at something you deeply and permanently hate.
— Robert M. Pirsig
So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell ... is it?
— Robert M. Pirsig
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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
It's the clothes that make them think you're not really there.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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.
— Robert M. Pirsig
The pencil is mightier than the pen.
— Robert M. Pirsig
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
— Robert M. Pirsig
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
— Robert M. Pirsig
