Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

Things change, but they stay the same.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.

What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.