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Jul 13, 2017 06:12PM

“The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What’s really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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“Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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“The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one’s work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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“preintellectual awareness. The subliminal self, Poincaré said, looks at a large number of solutions to a problem, but only the interesting ones break into the domain of consciousness.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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“There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety. The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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