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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes about Attitude

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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

Robert M. Pirsig
Attitude, Hard, Ifs

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude

Robert M. Pirsig
Attitude, Independent, Ideas

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

Robert M. Pirsig
Attitude, Book, Writing
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

Robert M. Pirsig
Lonely, Attitude, Real
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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