There is only one kind of person, Phædrus said, who accepts or rejects the mythos in which he lives. And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phædrus said, is "insane." To go outside the mythos is to become insane.

— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

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