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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

— Robert M. Pirsig

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  1. The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
  2. How does thought take shape?
  3. Between the subject and the object lies the value. This Value is more immediate, more directly sensed than any 'self' or any 'object' to wh…
  4. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
  5. Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an …
  6. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
  7. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all energy systems run down like a clock and never rewind themselves. But life not only 'runs …
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  • concept
  • morality
  • noun
  • semantics

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