Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitude. It's having the right attitude that is hard.
– Robert M. Pirsig
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.
– Robert M. Pirsig
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
– Robert M. Pirsig
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
– Robert M. Pirsig
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
– Robert M. Pirsig
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
– Robert M. Pirsig
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
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
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.
– Robert M. Pirsig
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
