More quotes by Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
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"There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere."
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"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know."
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