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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

«The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.»
Author: Robert M. Pirsig | Keywords: First hand, improve
«The solutions all are simple / after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.»
«To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.»
«Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.»
Author: Robert M. Pirsig | Keywords: menu, menus, restaurant
«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.»
«Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.»
«Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all»
«The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there»
Author: Robert M. Pirsig | About: Zen | Keywords: tops, Zen