Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Quotes - Page 3

• My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Peace, Writing, Mind

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• Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.24.

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• And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Needs, Asks

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, April 1, 1974.

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• So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Spinning, Wheels, Hell

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• Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Men, Civilization, Want

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• The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Salary

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• I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Everyday, Forget

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

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Mind, Might

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• I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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

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• The more you look, the more you will see.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Nature, Looks

  Sarah Landry, Roger Tory Peterson (1998). “Peterson First Guide to Urban Wildlife”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Attitude, Independent, Ideas

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• Quality tends to fan out like waves.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Quality, Fans, Wave

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

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• In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Temples, Motive, Various

  "Principles of Research". Address at the Physical Society, Berlin, for Max Planck's 60th birthday, www.site.uottawa.ca. 1918.

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• What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reality, Thinking, Data

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• Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  School, Government, Organization

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, April 1, 1974.

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