Robert M. Pirsig Quotes
People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.
I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.
He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.
Dad?""What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us."What should I be when I grow up?"The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest, " I finally say.
This forest silence improves anyone.
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
grades really cover up failure to teach.
When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.
Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold
A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, “If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.” He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.