“Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.” MeanProcessSimpleQualitySubjectsBrokenDirectMysteriousExplanationAnalyticsPhilosophicBroken DownZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.” MenWritingMadeDoneCharacterMightNamesNaturalJusticeInterestingQualityBrokenDiscoveryBoundsNobleBrilliantDevotionHeightTiesNot AfraidDistressInteresting Characters Book:Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times
“The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.” MenMaySometimesCharacterSeemsJusticeQualityStrangeBrokenContradictionContradictoryCompoundsRegularityOmissionBest Of Me Author:Laurence Sterne
“Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.” KindCountryMomentsDreamHumorFunnyLastsPoorQualityBrokenColdLateEnglandBottomWeatherHolidayOnlineWildernessRetirementPieGreyPollsQuality Of LifePublic ServiceEuropean CountriesBroken DreamsHealth ServicesPoor Health Author:Bill Bailey
“What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.” IfsMeanSimpleQualitySituationSubjectsBrokenDirectMysteriousWhat IfBroken DownHypotheticalZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.” YearsStillsIndividualLostLosesNaturalPleasureQualityTakenViolenceShareChangedBrokenHealthyDespairAnxietyFairsBonesEnjoyedAppealsAcquireCompanionStrongestSuspicionHealedFair ShareBroken Bone Author:Yann Martel