"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
-Robert M. Pirsig
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.“
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"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
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"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."
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