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The Buddha takes no position o...

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

99 per cent of your life recog...

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

I suppose philosophy is histor...

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

The real University... has no ...

The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

It's not the 'nice' guy who br...

It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

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

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

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

One of the most moral acts is ...

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

The past exists only in our me...

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

Great minds struggle to cure d...

Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

What the Metaphysics of Qualit...

What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

Now he began to see for the fi...

Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

So round and round you go, spi...

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

The real purpose of the scient...

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.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

We always condemn most in othe...

We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

It's so hard when contemplated...

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

Now the stream of our common c...

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

My favorite piece of technical...

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

The mythos-over-logos argument...

The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is.

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It's normal at this point for ...

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

Cultures are not the source of...

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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