Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig
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It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.' -
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More quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
- Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
- Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
- Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
- To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.