- Author: [[Robert M. Pirsig]] - Full Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Tags:: books [[inbox]] -  - ### Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[2020-09-03]] - If you try to fix a faucet and your fixing doesn’t work then it’s just your lot to live with a dripping faucet. ([Location 299](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=299)) - She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and wind she would see a thing that sometimes comes when monotony and boredom are accepted. It’s here, but I have no names for it. ([Location 386](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=386)) - They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, “I am a mechanic.” ([Location 486](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=486)) - In their own way they were achieving the same thing John and Sylvia were, living with technology without really having anything to do with it. Or rather, they had something to do with it, but their own selves were outside of it, detached, removed. They were involved in it but not in such a way as to care. ([Location 489](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=489)) - Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted. ([Location 503](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=503)) - We are all of us very arrogant and conceited about running down other people’s ghosts but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own.” ([Location 618](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=618)) - If someone’s ungrateful and you tell him he’s ungrateful, okay, you’ve called him a name. You haven’t solved anything. ([Location 814](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=814)) - I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving down the empty road. ([Location 857](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=857)) - He isn’t so interested in what things mean as in what they are. ([Location 902](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=902)) - A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance. ([Location 1197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=1197)) - When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. ([Location 1374](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=1374)) - Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive. ([Location 1905](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0026772N8&location=1905))