Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

There is Moral Sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables up to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it.

A moral issue is always more interesting than a real issue.

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.

My moral compass is strong.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

I think evil is very relative.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.