Robert Pirsig Lila Quotes

#1. Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?

Richard Baxter

#3. If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.

Kami Garcia

#4. To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.

Asif Kapadia

#5. An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. We make our plans, but God directs our steps.

Rachel Hauck

#7. Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.

William Shakespeare

#8. It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people ... That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

David Foster Wallace

#10. We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is the question of accumulation, but not in the sense that Adrian meant, just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed out, there is a difference between addition and increase.

Julian Barnes

#11. The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Jane Campion

#12. While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

Victor Koo

#13. An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

Giles Matthey

#14. Paul's secret joy was that God took him as a blatant rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive - and that became his purpose.

Oswald Chambers

#15. That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die

Robert M. Pirsig

#16. Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

Robert M. Pirsig

#17. What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.

Ron Brackin

#18. I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#19. In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson