Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

I'm kind of psychotic and I like to talk about things. I'm a Virgo, too, so I like to analyze and overprocess.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

Life is a process of one goneness after another.

We murder to dissect.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

Have read little and understood less.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.