Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included. - Robert M. Pirsig

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

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.

In recent times we have seen a huge split develop between a classic culture and a romantic counterculture—two worlds growingly alienated and hateful toward each other with everyone wondering if it will always be this way, a house divided against itself.