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Classic quotes from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Classic Quotations from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

We are often too busy to have a good chat, and as a result we live a boring life day after day, monotonously. The days make people think about them a few years later and wonder how they lived, and time has slipped away quietly. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

If you have complete confidence in something, you are less likely to develop a fanatical attitude. Take the sun as an example. No one will be excited about it rising tomorrow because it is an inevitable phenomenon. If someone is fanatical about politics or religion, it is because he does not have complete faith in those goals or doctrines.

Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Traveling by motorcycle is completely different from other methods. When you sit in a car, you are only confined to a small space. Because you are used to it, you don't realize that looking out of the car window is almost the same as watching TV. You are just a passive spectator, and the scenery can only fly past the window in a dull manner.

Riding a motorcycle is different. There are no car windows or glass in front of you to block your view, and you will feel that you are closely integrated with nature. You are in the scene, not the audience, and you can feel the immersive shock.

Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

To a romantic person, this classical approach often seems dull, dull and ugly. Just like maintaining a car, everything about the car can be broken down into parts and the relationships between them. Everything must be measured and proven, which gives people a heavy sense of oppression, a kind of never-ending gloom, which is a force of death.

For a classical person, romantic people are very frivolous and irrational, have fluctuating moods, are not trustworthy, and are only interested in pleasure. They are superficial people, like parasites. Like insects, they have no meaning, cannot support themselves, and are a burden to society. From here we can almost see their conflict with each other.

Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Two methods of logic should be mentioned here, the inductive method and the deductive method. The inductive approach begins with observing motorcycles and then drawing general conclusions. For example, if a motorcycle hits a pothole on the road, the engine will ignite; then it hits a pothole again, and the engine shuts down; then hits a pothole again, and the engine still shuts down; and then, while driving on a flat road, the engine will shut down again. There was no fire, and then it happened again, and the engine stalled again. Then this person can reasonably infer that the engine stalling was caused by the pothole. This is the so-called induction method, which uses individual experiences to deduce universal principles.

Deduction is just the opposite. It deduces specific results from general principles. For example, we know that motorcycles have a certain structure and system, and repairmen know that the horn is controlled by the battery, so once the battery is used up, the horn will naturally stop sounding. This is the deduction method.

Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

We plan to enjoy the scenery along the way, so we must enjoy the travel process. Do the ugly thing of visiting several attractions in a short period of time.

From time to time, there will be children waving to you along the way, and adults will also walk from the house to the porch to see who is passing by. Once you stop to ask for directions or want to know something about the local situation, the answers you get are often unexpected: they will ask you where you are from, how long you have been riding, and they will talk to you enthusiastically and nonstop for a long time, which is simply better than you. Still excited.

Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

"This is the most difficult thing to photograph in the world. You need a 360-degree With a wide-angle lens, you look at such a landscape and then look at the grass on the ground. Everything is wonderful, but once you frame it, the beauty is gone. ?

Robert M. Wave. Seeger's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Human passion, emotion, and the emotional aspect of consciousness are actually part of the laws of nature and are the core of work. Keep inner peace when doing it, it is the core of the work.

If you want to be appreciative, understand how to complete advanced work, and experience the feeling of being one with your work, you must cultivate inner peace.

Inner peace involves a natural attitude that allows one to be fully one with one's surroundings. This is what happens when we do what we really want to do.

Inner peace will produce correct values, correct values ??will produce correct thoughts, and correct thoughts will produce correct actions.

Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

If you have complete confidence in something, you are less likely to develop a fanatical attitude. Take the sun as an example. No one will be excited about it rising tomorrow because it is an inevitable phenomenon.

Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

The rational structure handed down from ancient times no longer meets the needs, thus revealing its true face ?Emotionally empty, aesthetically void, and spiritually empty.

Under the rational structure of the entire civilization, we live very blindly and alienated.

Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

People tend to prefer a certain form when thinking and feeling, and will misunderstand and Look down on another form. However, no one will give up the truth they see. As far as I know, no one can truly integrate the two, because there is no intersection between the two.

So there was a serious conflict between modern classical and romantic culture? The two worlds gradually separated and hated each other, and everyone was doubting whether they should continue to develop like this. In fact, no one wants that? No matter what his opponents think.

Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Anything you do can be beautiful or ugly.

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