Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
Robert M. PirsigWhen analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
Robert M. PirsigIt's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...
Robert M. PirsigIf you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
Robert M. Pirsig