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
confusing deals rationality
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
thinking everyday forget
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
block order minorities
Rules of Order state that ... No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the organisation .... but No majority has a right to prevent a minority from peacefully attempting to become the majority.
culture moral evolution
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
struggle order people
Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.
knowledge science thinking
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.
definitions foundation reason
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.
doe values
A thing that has no value does not exist.
intellectual socialism communism
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
beach reality world
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
cutting past remember
The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
quality way sun
The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.
quality events
Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
passion understanding mind
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.