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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig
Life
Goal
Future
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
Robert M. Pirsig
People
Moments
It is a puzzling thing. 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
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
Truth
Hindsight
Testing
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
Life
Goal
Future
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig
Food
Metaphysics
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Robert M. Pirsig
Geometry
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig
Experience
Quality
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig
Truth
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig
Heart
First
World
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig
Mountains
Zen