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What__ emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can__ be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who__e solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning __quare_ rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I__ trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn__ that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it__ capable of coming up with a solution.
Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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What__ emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can__ be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who__e solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning __quare_ rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I__ trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn__ that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it__ capable of coming up with a solution.
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Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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