Pirsig's pearls
• The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.
• Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a 30,000 page menu and no food.
• Traditional scientific method has always been, at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
• Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
• The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
This woul not be complete without Plato:
And what is good, Phædrus,
And what is not good...
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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