Robert M. Pirsig

“We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.”

“In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...”

“The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and...”

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”

“One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.”

“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?”