Robert M. Pirsig Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

“We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.”

“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.”

“I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.”

“If you run from technology, it will chase you.”

“There's no such thing as morality.”

“Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?”

“I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.”

“I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'”

“It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.”