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Robert M. Pirsig

"Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Let each person decide his or her fate."

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Amber Hurdle

"Beauty, love with truth, that is all there is."

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Amber Hurdle

"Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Minimalism means not trying to improve perfection."

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Amber Hurdle

"Life cannot be exchange for anything."

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"Beauty is the brightness of being."

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Amber Hurdle

"The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish."

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Amber Hurdle

"The philosophy of a person speaks of what dictates or governs how and what someone believes."

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"There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy."

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"There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy."

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Robert M. Pirsig
"It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says."

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Robert M. Pirsig
"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."

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Robert M. Pirsig
"When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else."

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Robert M. Pirsig
"An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality."

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Robert M. Pirsig
"We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences. I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know. Everyone's familiar with that. I think the same thing occurs with whole civilizations when expansion's needed at the roots."

Evolution

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Robert M. Pirsig
"Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them."

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Robert M. Pirsig
"The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him."

Knowledge

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Robert M. Pirsig
"Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.Coming back I comment, 'He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together.'Bill laughs. 'And that's the best way to learn, too."

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Robert M. Pirsig
"And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?' What is good, PhASdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"

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Robert M. Pirsig
"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly."

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