The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig bringfindmountain Change image and share on social
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. Robert M. Pirsig fashiongumptionindividual Change image and share on social
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? Robert M. Pirsig billioncarbonchemistry share on social
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. Robert M. Pirsig arrivesimplesolution Change image and share on social
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him. Robert M. Pirsig ideakeeperlighthouse Change image and share on social
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything. Robert M. Pirsig peoplequarrelingresolve Change image and share on social
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin. Robert M. Pirsig deepeyeheretic Change image and share on social
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil. Robert M. Pirsig dualisticevilproduce Change image and share on social
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.' Robert M. Pirsig bookpeoplepotential Change image and share on social
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig futuregoallife Change image and share on social
