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Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance and Siddhartha 2 Books Collection Set

Book by Robert M. Pirsig · 5 quotes · Anxiety, Arguments, Be Here

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“The best way to break this cycle, I think, is to work out your anxieties on paper. Read every book and magazine you can on the subject. Your anxiety makes this easy and the more you read the more you calm down. You should remember that its peace of mind you’re after and not just a fixed machine.”

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“La Iglesia de la Razón, como todas las instituciones del Sistema, no se basa en la fuerza individual sino en la debilidad individual. Lo que en realidad se pide en la Iglesia de la Razón no es capacidad sino incapacidad. En ese caso es considerada “educable”. Una persona verdaderamente capaz es siempre una amenaza”

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“I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they'd just be startled and wonder what's wrong. I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness. It's a problem.”

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“When you’re talking birth control, what blocks it and freezes it out is that it’s not a matter of more or fewer babies being argued. That’s just on the surface. What’s underneath is a conflict of faith, of faith in empirical social planning versus faith in the authority of God as revealed by the teachings of the Catholic Church. You can prove the practicality of planned parenthood till you get tired of listening to yourself and it’s going to go nowhere because your antagonist isn’t buying the assumption that anything socially practical is good per se. Goodness for him has other sources which he values as much as or more than social practicality.”

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