Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Robert M. Pirsig — American Philosopher born on September 06, 1928,

Robert Maynard Pirsig is an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals... (wikipedia)

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

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

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

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

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

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