Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.
Robert M. PirsigEducation should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
Robert M. PirsigIf you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
Robert M. PirsigIn the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.
Robert M. Pirsig