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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Robert M. Pirsig quotes about life

American Philosopher, Writer September 6, 1928

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If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Sometimes the insane and the contrarians and the ones who are the closest to suicide are the most valuable people society has. They may be the precursors of social change. They've taken the burdens of the culture onto themselves and in their struggle to solve their own problems they're solving problems for the culture as well Robert M. Pirsig
The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to... Robert M. Pirsig
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest. Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig quote: "One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life..."
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig quote: "To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the..."
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. 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. Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig quote: "It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top."
It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig quote: "I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted..."
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Robert M. Pirsig

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