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The bourgeois must no longer feel himself a kind of pensioner of either tradition or capital, separated from the worker by the Marxist idea of property, but must aim to accommodate himself as a worker to the welfare of the community. Adolf Hitler		Sunday Feb 01, 2026
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I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else. Robert Maynard Pirsig

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	Robert Maynard Pirsig
	Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6, 1928, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and philosopher, mainly known as the author of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974), which has sold millions of copies around the world. Read More

Other Robert Maynard Pirsig Quotes

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. Its the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent -- fabulously more coherent -- when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world.... ... but showing that, of course, was a very big job.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.