Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Ethics

Quotes about: Ethics

• Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Jobs, Thinking, Feelings

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

• It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Distance, Loneliness, Psychics

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

• How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Ethics, Virtue

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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