It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there. Robert M. Pirsig goodlienothingness Change image and share on social
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. Robert M. Pirsig boredomcreativitygreat 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
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
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. Robert M. Pirsig foodgivemenu Change image and share on social
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell. Robert M. Pirsig daughterfamehappy 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
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. Robert M. Pirsig advantageousconvenientgeometry Change image and share on social
To live only 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
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. Robert M. Pirsig abstractiondirectexperience Change image and share on social
