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Quotes from Lila — Robert M. Pirsig

1928–2017 United States

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8 quotes

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

Lila (1991)

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Lila (1991)

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Lila (1991)

Between the subject and the object lies the value. This Value is more immediate, more directly sensed than any 'self' or any 'object' to which it may be later assigned.

Lila (1991)

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

Lila (1991)

Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food.

Lila (1991)

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

Lila (1991)

Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative.

Lila (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert M. Pirsig (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.