Robert M. Pirsig Quotes
"The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."
- Robert M. Pirsig
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Heart, First, World)
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Truth)
"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Experience, Quality)
"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Geometry)
"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Food, Metaphysics)
"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."
- Robert M. Pirsig
"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Life, Goal, Future)
"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
(Related: Truth, Hindsight, Testing)
"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Truth)
"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: People, Moments)
"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Life, Goal, Future)