Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is--not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Real, Technology

• Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Understanding, Avoided

• Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dream, Men, Understanding

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig (Ch. 29), 1974.

• 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

  Understanding, Inner Peace, Mind

• Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Quality, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

• An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Acceptance, Keys, Understanding

• There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Littles, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

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

• Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Acceptance, Keys

• Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Passion, Understanding, Mind

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