Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who real… - Robert M. Pirsig

Who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.

Between the subject and the object lies the value. This Value is more immediate, more directly sensed than any 'self' or any 'object' to which it may be later assigned. It is more real than the stove. Whether the stove is the cause of the low quality or whether possibly something else is the cause is not yet absolutely certain. But that the quality is low is absolutely certain. It is the primary empirical reality from which such things as stoves and heat and oaths and self are later intellectually constructed.