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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

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. — 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

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles — 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

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. — Robert M. Pirsig