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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!"Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. it's that only that gets me. science is only in your mind too, it's just that that doesn't make it bad. or ghosts either."Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Law of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts."...we see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
To the untrained eye ego-climbing and selfless climbing may appear identical. Both kinds of climbers place one foot in front of the other. Both breathe in and out at the same rate. Both stop when tired. Both go forward when rested. But what a difference! The ego-climber is like an instrument that's out of adjustment. He puts his foot down an instant too soon or too late. He's likely to miss a beautiful passage of sunlight through the trees. He goes on when the sloppiness of his step shows he's tired. He rests at odd times. He looks up the trail trying to see what's ahead even when he knows what's ahead because he just looked a second before. He goes too fast or too slow for the conditions and when he talks his talk is forever about somewhere else, something else. He's here but he's not here. He rejects the here, is unhappy with it, wants to be farther up the trail but when he gets there will be just as unhappy because then it will be 'here.' What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
If one accepts the premise that all knowledge comes to us through our senses, Hume says, then one must logically conclude that both 'Nature' and 'Nature's laws' are creations of our own imagination.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle
Birisi nankörse ve siz ona nankör olduğunu söylerseniz, en fazla ona bir ad takmış olursunuz ama hiçbir şeyi çözmüş olmazsınız.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity. The passage is from a 1918 speech by a young German scientist named Albert Einstein.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
duller than ditchwater. Yah
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
But in the secondary America we've been through, of back roads, and Chinaman's ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated. And so there wasn't much feeling of loneliness.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle
We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get a chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day to day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.
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Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen y el arte del
Lo que me gustaría hacer ahora es usar ese tiempo para conversar sobre algunas cosas que se me vienen a la mente. Vamos con tanta prisa la mayor parte del tiempo que nunca tenemos muchas oportunidades de charlar. El resultado es una especie de interminable superficialidad cotidiana, una monotonía que deja a la persona preguntándose, años más tarde, adónde se fue el tiempo y lamentando que se haya ido. Ahora que tenemos algo de tiempo, y lo sabemos, me agradaría ocuparlo conversando con cierta profundidad sobre temas que parecen importantes."
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