A Culture-bearing Book, Like A Mule, Bears The Culture On Its Back. No One Should Sit Down To Write One Deliberately. Culture-bearing Books Appear Almost Accidentally, Like A Sudden Surge In The Stock Market. There Are Books Of High Quality That Are A Part Of The Culture, But That Is Not The Same. They Are A Part Of It. They Aren't Carrying It Anywhere. They May Talk About Insanity Sympathetically, For Example, Because That's The Standard Cultural Attitude. But They Don't Carry Any Suggestion That Insanity Might Be Something Other Than Sickness Or Degeneracy.

-Robert M. Pirsig

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A Culture-bearing Book, Like A Mule, Bears

Robert M. Pirsig

A Culture-bearing Book, Like A Mule, Bears The Culture On Its Back. No One Should Sit Down To Write One Deliberately. Culture-bearing Books Appear Almost Accidentally, Like A Sudden Surge In The Stock Market. There Are Books Of High Quality That Are A Part Of The Culture, But That Is Not The Same. They Are A Part Of It. They Aren't Carrying It Anywhere. They May Talk About Insanity Sympathetically, For Example, Because That's The Standard Cultural Attitude. But They Don't Carry Any Suggestion That Insanity Might Be Something Other Than Sickness Or Degeneracy.

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Attitude

Book

Writing

Dialectic, Which Is The Parent Of Logic, Came Itself From Rhetoric. Rhetoric Is In Turn The Child Of The Myths And Poetry Of Ancient Greece. That Is So Historically, And That Is So By Any Application Of Common Sense. The Poetry And Myths Are The Response Of A Prehistoric People To The Universe Around Them Made On The Basis Of Quality. It Is Quality, Not Dialectic, Which Is The Generator Of Everything We Know.

Children

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Common Sense