Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quotes.

1. "The more you look, the more you see."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

2. "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

3. "When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

4. "You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it’s right there, so blurred you can’t focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

5. "The material object of observation, the bicycle or rotisserie, can’t be right or wrong. Molecules are molecules. They don’t have any ethical codes to follow except those people give them. The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquillity it’s right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. The test of the machine’s always your own mind. There isn’t any other test."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

6. "You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

7. "We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

8. "Some things you miss because they’re so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don’t see because they’re so huge."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

9. "The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

10. "One thing about pioneers that you don’t hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers."
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance