Robert M. Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Quotes

• “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is goi...”
• “There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is th...”
• “…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal diff...”
• “We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense o...”
• “The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you ...”
• “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a R...”
• “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
• “The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
• “To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.”
• “For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”