Quotes About Pirsig

Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself

Real science and real philosophy are not guided by preconceptions of what subjects are important to consider. That

And I think it's about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource—individual worth.

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.

Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and DeWeese works only with the continuities of things with the chunks and bits and pieces presumed.

However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles either.

It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.

The Quality event is the cause of the subjects and objects, which are then mistakenly presumed to be the cause of the Quality!