Robert M. Pirsig Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”

“It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.”

“If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.”

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.”

“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”

“We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.”

“The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.”

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”

“The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.”