Robert M. Pirsig Quote Explained: There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

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

Philosopher and writer

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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

- Robert M. Pirsig

Philosopher and writer

· USA

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Is it hard?’ Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

- Robert M. Pirsig

Philosopher and writer

· USA

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That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

- Robert M. Pirsig

Philosopher and writer

· USA

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

- Robert M. Pirsig

Philosopher and writer

· USA

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The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

- Robert M. Pirsig

Philosopher and writer

· USA

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

- Robert M. Pirsig

Philosopher and writer

· USA

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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

- Robert M. Pirsig

Philosopher and writer

· USA

There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

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

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Is it hard?’ Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

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

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

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

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Explain

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

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