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Book: Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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  1. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    ...the incredible contrasts of the best and worst...both exist here in such terrific intensity because New York's never been committed to any preservation of its static patterns. It's always ready to change. Whether you are or not. That is what creates its horror and that is what creates its power. Its strength is its looseness. It's the freedom to be so awful that gives it the freedom to be so good. And so things keep happening here all the time that have this Dynamic sparkle that saves it all. In the midst of everything that's wrong, it sparkles.
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  2. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    The man who suffers a heart attack and is taken off the train at New Rochelle has had all his static patterns shattered, he can't find them, and in that moment only Dynamic Quality is available to him. That is why he gazes at his own hand with a sense of wonder and delight.
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  3. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the morals to make someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves. It doesn't matter what the moral code is -- religious morals, political morals, racist morals, capitalist morals, feminist morals, hippie morals -- they're all the same. The moral codes change but the meanness and the egotism stay the same.
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  4. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    They were living in some kind of movie projected by this intellectual, electromechanical machine that had been created for their happiness, saying: PARADISE PARADISE PARADISE but which had inadvertently shut them out from direct experience of life itself-and from each other.
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  5. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    the struggle of the noble, free-thinking
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  6. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    Perché, ad esempio, un gruppo di composti semplici e stabili di carbonio, idrogeno, ossigeno e azoto avrebbero dovuto lottare per miliardi di anni allo scopo di organizzarsi, mettiamo, in un professore di chimica? Che cosa li ha spinti? Se questo professore noi lo lasciamo esposto su uno scoglio al sole per un tempo sufficientemente lungo, le forze della natura lo ridurranno a una serie di composti di carbonio, ossigeno, idrogeno e azoto, più un po' di calcio e di fosforo con tracce di altri minerali. E la reazione è irreversibile.
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  7. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    Real science and real philosophy are not guided by preconceptions of what subjects are important to consider. That
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  8. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    When she first came here she used to think there was somebody up in those big buildings who knows what's going on here. They would never come down and talk to her. After a while she found out nobody knows what's going on.
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  9. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    These were the underdogs, the outsiders, the pariahs, the sinners of his system. But the reason he was so concerned about them was that he felt the quality and strength of his entire system of organization depended on how he treated them. If he treated the pariahs well he would have a good system. If he treated them badly he would have a weak one.
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  10. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    It's the clothes that make them think you're not really there.
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  11. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    Insanity on the other hand is an intellectual pattern. It may have biological causes but it has no physical or biological reality. No scientific instrument can be produced in court to show who is insane and who is sane. There's nothing about insanity that conforms to any scientific law of the universe. The scientific laws of the universe are invented by sanity. There's no way by which sanity, using the instruments of its own creation, can measure that which is outside of itself and its creations. Insanity isn't an 'object' of observation. It's an alteration of observation itself. There's no such thing as a 'disease' of patterns of intellect. There's only heresy. And that's what insanity really is."
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  12. Robert M. Pirsig _ Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

    It's all taking the customer's money and giving him exactly what he wants and then leaving him poorer than when he started."
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