Robert M. PirsigThinkers

Aristotle is the eternal motorcycle mechanic who prefers the "many" just as Plato is the essential Buddha-seeker who moves onward and upward to the "one".

Madness is distinguished from religion in that it is called madness when one person suffers from a delusion and religion when many people suffer from a delusion.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

A Motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, so a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

The Motorcycle is nothing but a system of concepts worked out in steel.

A Painting is capable of perfection. It is merely a matter of making oneself perfect, and then just painting naturally.

Parmenides made it clear for the first time that the Immortal Principle, the One, Truth, God, is separate from appearance and from opinion.

Parmenides is that point at which the classic mind, for the first time, took leave of its romantic origins and said, "The Good and the True are not necessarily the same," and goes its separate way.

Plato is the essential Buddha-seeker who appears again and again in each generation, moving onward and upward toward the "one" just as Aristotle is the eternal motorcycle mechanic who prefers the "many.".

Religion is many people suffering from a delusion while one person suffering from a delusion is called insanity.