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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Robert M. Pirsig quotes about time

American Philosopher, Writer September 6, 1928

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We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time" and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. Robert M. Pirsig
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. Robert M. Pirsig
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig quote: "We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured..."
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
May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW. Robert M. Pirsig

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