Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig
Robert Maynard Pirsigis an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesand Lila: An Inquiry into Morals...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth6 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
Robert M. Pirsig quotes about
understanding quality knows
Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
reflection interesting people
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
science chaos social
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.
travel want good-times
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....
science patterns static
Science values static patterns.
distance people today
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.
fashion interesting trivia
What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.
needs asks zen-motorcycle-maintenance
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
ideas ifs
If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
momentum purpose common
Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum
technology evil tendencies
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
truth simple rationality
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
intellectual purpose intellectual-freedom
We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.
thinking cells mind
The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.