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Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values past Robert M. Pirsig216,157 ratings, 3.77 boilerplate rating, nine,545 reviews
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"You are never dedicated to something y'all accept complete confidence in. No i is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know information technology's going to ascent tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's e'er because these dogmas or goals are in dubiety."
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Research Into Values
― Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Research Into Values
"We're in such a hurry almost of the fourth dimension nosotros never become much take a chance to talk. The consequence is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years afterward where all the fourth dimension went and pitiful that information technology'south all gone. "
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"In a car you lot're always in a compartment, and considering y'all're used to it you lot don't realize that through that car window everything yous come across is but more Tv set. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by yous boringly in a frame.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, non just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because information technology is a system is to set on effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The truthful organization, the existent system, is our present structure of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a manufactory is torn down simply the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another manufactory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of idea that produced that authorities are left intact, and so those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. In that location's and so much talk about the system. And so little understanding."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Research Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Research Into Values
"The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that ways is that that police of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! Information technology 'due south a ghost!"
Listen has no affair or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the heed. numbers exist but in the mind. I don't become upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. it'south that only that gets me. scientific discipline is only in your mind too, information technology's just that that doesn't brand it bad. or ghosts either."
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Constabulary of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, similar ghosts."
...nosotros see what we meet because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the by."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry Into Values
Listen has no affair or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the heed. numbers exist but in the mind. I don't become upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. it'south that only that gets me. scientific discipline is only in your mind too, information technology's just that that doesn't brand it bad. or ghosts either."
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Constabulary of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, similar ghosts."
...nosotros see what we meet because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the by."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry Into Values
"The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite equally comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a bike transmission as he does at the top of the mount, or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"To the untrained eye ego-climbing and selfless climbing may appear identical. Both kinds of climbers place ane foot in front of the other. Both breathe in and out at the same rate. Both stop when tired. Both go forward when rested. But what a difference! The ego-climber is similar an instrument that's out of adjustment. He puts his pes down an instant too presently or too late. He'south likely to miss a cute passage of sunlight through the copse. He goes on when the sloppiness of his step shows he's tired. He rests at odd times. He looks up the trail trying to see what'due south ahead even when he knows what's alee considering he just looked a second before. He goes besides fast or too slow for the conditions and when he talks his talk is forever nigh somewhere else, something else. He's here but he'southward not hither. He rejects the here, he'south unhappy with it, wants to be farther up the trail but when he gets at that place will exist only equally unhappy considering so *it* will be "here". What he'south looking for, what he wants, is all around him, just he doesn't want that because it *is* all effectually him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, considering he imagines his goal to be external and distant."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements near reality are never presumed to be reality itself."
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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