The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
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. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
