Robert M. Pirsig

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

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the trut ...

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you ...

Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those ...

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions fro ...

What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's e ...

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you ...

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

Quality tends to fan out like waves.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is don ...

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow re ...

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the proces ...