Lila Pirsig Quotes & Sayings

Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought — Robert M. Pirsig

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila — Robert M. Pirsig

If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Sometimes the insane and the contrarians and the ones who are the closest to suicide are the most valuable people society has. They may be the precursors of social change. They've taken the burdens of the culture onto themselves and in their struggle to solve their own problems they're solving problems for the culture as well — Robert M. Pirsig

That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die — Robert M. Pirsig

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation — Robert M. Pirsig