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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

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If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

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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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The Buddha resides 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.

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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 6th, 1928

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