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Data without generalization is just gossip.
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Time is creation. The future is just not there.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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Who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
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Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion.
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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
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Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
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If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.
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The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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I am Phædrus, that is who I am, and they are going to destroy me for speaking the Truth.
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Making... an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology.
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When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
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It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.
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When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....
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Zen is the "spirit of the valley." The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Robert M. Pirsig
1975 © William Morrow/HarperCollins
Born:
September 6, 1928
Died:
April 24, 2017
(aged 88)
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