The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

—Robert M. Pirsig

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About Robert M. Pirsig

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Robert Maynard Pirsig (; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An...

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

—Robert M. Pirsig

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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Rock-and-roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

—John Mellencamp

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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied, or reoccupied, by our real problems—the problems of life and of human relations.

—John Maynard Keynes

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