Robert M. Pirsig

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".... ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#morality #progress #life

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#science #art

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#relationships #shepherd #sport #wolf #art

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#rationality #art

Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one node or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#intelligence

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#find #mountains #only #tops #up