99 per cent of your life ...

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.
 Robert M. Pirsig

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Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
 Robert M. Pirsig
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
 Robert M. Pirsig
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
 Robert M. Pirsig
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
 Robert M. Pirsig
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
 Robert M. Pirsig