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“Cuando una persona sufre espejismos, eso se denomina locura. Cuando muchas personas sufren espejismos, se denomina religión.”

Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

De religión , Locura

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“El lugar para mejorar el mundo es primero en nuestro propio corazón, cabeza y manos, y luego trabajar hacia afuera desde allí.”

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Corazón , De mundo

Robert M. Pirsig: Frases en inglés

“Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
Contexto: Lightning hits!
Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine "virtue." But aretê. Excellence. Dharma! Before the Church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute. Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric.

“He knew that to understand Quality he would have to leave the mythos. That's why he felt that slippage. He knew something was about to happen.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 28
Contexto: Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are. You know something and then the Quality stimulus hits and then you try to define the Quality stimulus, but to define it all you've got to work with is what you know. So your definition is made up of what you know. It's an analogue to what you already know. It has to be. It can't be anything else. And the mythos grows this way. By analogies to what is known before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. The Quality is the track that directs the train. What is outside the train, to either side—that is the terra incognita of the insane. He knew that to understand Quality he would have to leave the mythos. That's why he felt that slippage. He knew something was about to happen.

“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“Is it hard?'
Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

“If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 20
Contexto: Zen is the "spirit of the valley." The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“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.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 26
Fuente: 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.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

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

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.”

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“(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness). Familiarity can blind you too.”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

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

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

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“What is good, Phædrus, and what is not good—need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”

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Robert M. Pirsig libro Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de la motocicleta

Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
The quote is from section 258d of the dialogue Phædrus (tr. Benjamin Jowett).
Fuente: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Contexto: A single thought begins to grow in his mind, extracted from something he read in the dialogue Phædrus. "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 any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?"
What is good, Phædrus, and what is not good—need we ask anyone to tell us these things?