Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Book page: pirsig-zen-motorcycle-part-2, pirsig-zen-motorcycle-part-1

From: Quotes batch 19

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Concept

“Quality is not a thing. It is an event. It is the event at which the subject becomes aware of the object.” (p. 239)

Behavior

“The real cycle you’re working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be ‘out there’ and the person that appears to be ‘in here’ are not two separate things.” (p. 319)

Game Theory

“A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who is involved in a different set of stakes than a person who is just following instructions.” (p. 273)

Cognition

“The knife of analytic thought is necessary, but it divides the world into parts and often kills the sense of the whole.” (p. 75)

Memory

“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness and call that handful of sand the world.” (p. 77)