Robert M. Pirsig Quotes on Mind (4 Quotes)

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.