I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air. - Robert M. Pirsig
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships. - Robert M. Pirsig
Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila - Robert M. Pirsig
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... - Robert M. Pirsig
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use. - Robert M. Pirsig
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him. - Robert M. Pirsig
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. - Robert M. Pirsig