We take a handful of sand ...

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
 Robert M. Pirsig

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

Quotes from the same author

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