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How does thought take shape?

— Robert M. Pirsig

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  2. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
  3. The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
  4. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
  5. 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…
  6. The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -zen & motorcycle maintenance
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  8. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

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Topics in this quote

  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • cognition
  • form
  • process
  • thinking

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