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
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It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.
people
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.
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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.
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'