Robert M. Pirsig

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

#art

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#truth #zen #inspirational

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

#goal #life #live #mountain #only

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#science #art

The truth knocks on your door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#uncertainty

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#knowledge #mistake #nature #science #art

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#sacrifice #though #art