Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Quotes

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantl...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Berge sollte man mit möglichst wenig Anstrengung und ohne Ehrgeiz ersteigen. Unsere eigene Natur sollte das Tempo bestimmen. Wenn man unruhig wird, geht man schneller. Wenn man zu keuchen anfängt, geht man langsamer. Man steigt auf den Berg in eine...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know. There's not a mechanic or scientist or technician alive who hasn't suffered from that one so much that he's n...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I talked yesterday about caring, I care about these moldy old riding gloves. I smile at them flying through the breeze beside me because they have been there for so many years and are so old and so tired and so rotten there is something kind of humor...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are co...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were no...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?" What is good, PhÊdr...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values