The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there

Quote by Robert M Pirsig

Topics: Zen Quotes

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

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

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

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

Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material...

Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material...

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple...

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple...

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry...

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry...

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain...

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain...

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's...

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's...

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the...

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the...

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that...

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that...

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go...

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go...

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you...

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you...

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

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

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no...

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no...

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into...

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into...

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next...

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next...

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in...

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in...

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life,...

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life,...