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Quotes · Robert M. Pirsig

“We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.”

– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Morrow Modern Classics, 1999, pg. 5.

From volume VII of the file · Book · 20th century

Themes: exploration & travel · time

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“Art is high-Quality endeavor. That is all that really needs to be said. Or, if something more high-sounding is demanded: Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.”

– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Morrow Modern Classics, 1999, pg. 262.