Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

American - Philosopher | September 6, 1928 -

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Robert M. Pirsig

IntegrityIndependenceNeedReturn

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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TechnologyYouRunWillChase

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

HeartWorldBrainyHandsPlaceHead

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Robert M. Pirsig

EvilLookingThingsWaysProduces

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

WorkHeartWorldHandsPlaceFirst

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

TruthDoorLookingYouGoSay

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

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PeopleMomentsThroughLittleKeep

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

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FoodRestaurantYouPageThirty

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

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TrueMoreGeometryCannotOnlyThan

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

PeopleMeIdeasMoreHimOut

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.

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EyesSoulI AmDeepDownSkin

Quality is the Buddha.

Robert M. Pirsig

QualityBuddha

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