Sanity is not truth. Sanity ...

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

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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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
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
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
 Robert M. Pirsig