Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Unity

Quotes about: Unity

• Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Men, Unity, Quality

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

• The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reality, Unity, Way

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

• What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Names, Unity, Together

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

• Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Unity, Adjectives, Nouns

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

• To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Buddhist, Believe, Air

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