Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. PirsigMy favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.
Robert M. PirsigThe funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
Robert M. PirsigWhat is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.
Robert M. Pirsig