Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Attitude, Book, Writing

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

• A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Social Values, Support, Intellectual

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

• Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Culture, Moral, Evolution

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

• When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Culture, Protect, Norm

  Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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