(?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)
Robert M. Pirsig

“If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn't enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what's good. That is what carries you forward. This sense isn't just something you're born with, although you are born with it. It's also something you can develop. It's not just "intuition,'' not just unexplainable "skill'' or "talent.'' It's the direct result of contact with basic reality, Quality, which dualistic reason has in the past tended to conceal.”

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Read more quotes from Robert M. Pirsig


Share this quote:
Share on Twitter

Friends Who Liked This Quote

To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up!

1 like
All Members Who Liked This Quote



This Quote Is From

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
244,062 ratings, average rating, 11,778 reviews
Open Preview

Browse By Tag