I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of a p… - Robert M. Pirsig

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of the political nature… I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important and products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right.

Making... an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.