Lightning hits!
Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine "virtue." But aretê. Excellence. Dharma!

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

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