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That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle, Steel, Bikers
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Robert M. Pirsig
Track, Motorcycle, Important

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle, Riding, Maintenance
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

Robert M. Pirsig
Art, Law, Motorcycle

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle, Finals, Maintenance

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.

Robert M. Pirsig
Motorcycle, Looks, Sand

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