“ The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ”
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“ Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching – without these a university cannot exist. ”
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“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”
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“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”
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“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”
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“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”
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“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower… ”
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“ Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is. ”
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“ That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. ”
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“ That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ”
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“ The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is — not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ”
- Robert Maynard Hutchins- Copy
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“ The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is — not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. ”
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“ What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. ”
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“ Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20/20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ”
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“ Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20/20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education. ”
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“ A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. ”
- Robert Maynard Hutchins- Copy
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“ Flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha — which is to demean oneself. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. ”
- Robert Maynard Hutchins- Copy
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“ Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. ”
- Robert Maynard Hutchins- Copy
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“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling. ”
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