Famous, cool,
inspirational, funny,
love, life, great and other
quotes from movies,
books, bible and
more

Main Menu

Quotes By Author

Quick Search^(NEW!!)

Find Quote

Calendar

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne		Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
		Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969

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

Quote Author: Robert Maynard Pirsig

	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.