Quotes About Philosophy

The answer doesn't seem to satisfy him. But he can't seem to say what's wrong with it.

Mu becomes appropriate when the context of the question becomes too small for the truth of the answer.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

What is the truth and how do you know it when you have it?... How do we really know anything? Is there an I a soul, which knows, or is this soul merely cells coordinating senses?... Is reality basically changing, or is it fixed and permanent?... When it's said that something means something, what's meant by that?

They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds.

Quality is just the focal point around which a lot of intellectual furniture is getting rearranged.

My own opinion is that the intellect of modern man isn't that superior. IQs aren't that much different. Those Indians and medieval men were just as intelligent as we are, but the context in which they thought was completely different. Within that context of thought, ghosts and spirits are quite as real as atoms, particles, photons and quarks are to a modern man. In that sense I believe in ghosts. Modern man has his ghosts and spirits too, you know.

I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. Classics read well this way.

The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go.

What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge

One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

that when the Platypus was discovered, scientists said it was a paradox. But Pirsig's point was it was never a paradox or an oddity. It didn't make sense only to the scientists because they viewed the nature of animals according to their own classification, when nature did not have any.

The One in India has got to be the same as the One in Greece. If it's not, you've got two. The only disagreements among the monists concern the attributes of the One, not the One itself. Since the One is the source of all things and includes all things in it, it cannot be defined in terms of those things, since no matter what thing you use to define it, the thing will always describe something less than the One itself.

That is impractical, but practicality isn't the whole thing with gloves or with anything else.

Kad jedna osoba pati od iluzije, to se naziva poreme?enoš?u uma. Kad mnogo ljudi pati od iluzije, to se naziva religijom.

the struggle of the noble, free-thinking

The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane!

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

He isn't so interested in what things mean as in what they are.

And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phaedrus said, is "insane." To

Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.

Mu means "no thing." Like "Quality" it points outside the process of dualistic discrimination. Mu simply says, "No class; not one, not zero, not yes, not no." 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.

His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Stuckness. That's what I want to talk about today. Back