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
people
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.
produces
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.
evaluation facts ability
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
failure self effort
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
god atheist people
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
moving-forward moving space
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
opposites done information
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.
destiny thinking people
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.
government patterns systematic
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
encouraging wisdom hiking
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
patterns looks where-you-are
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
motorcycle steel bikers
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
motivation humility self
Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.
hippie simple people
Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.