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“Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Now we’re paying the price. When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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“If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

tags: definitions, irrationality, language, logic, rational-thought, stupidity

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“To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

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“And, after all, isn’t that what life is all about, the ability to go around back and come up inside other people’s heads to look out at the damned fool miracle and say: oh, so that’s how you see it!? Well, now, I must remember that.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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“When I meet a cat, I say, “Poor Pussy!” and stop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace. When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to last an ordinarily respectable man all his life, with care.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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