Robert M. Pirsig

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#hands #head #heart #improve #own

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#completely #even #others #presence

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#goal #life #live #mountain #shallow

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#already #arrived #know #only #simple

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#give #menu #metaphysics #page #restaurant

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#fame #happy #i #money #our

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#dying #figure #haven #i #life

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#another #cannot #convenient #geometry #more

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#find #mountains #only #tops #up