Quotes by Pirsig, Robert M.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. 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 solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

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