"The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we a...
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
~ Robert M. Pirsig ~
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In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
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"Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is. And when you presume there’s just one right way to do things, of cours...
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"But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. T...
"To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to app...
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"What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move acro...
"Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Si...
"Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A pers...
"To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
"Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a...
"Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reas...
"We’re living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experie...
"During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is suppos...