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Danh ngôn của Robert M. Pirsig (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
If you run from technology, it will chase you.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.