From Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (An inquiry into values)

… Kant says there are aspects of reality which are not supplied immediately by senses. These he calls a priori. An example of a priori knowledge is “time”. …
… We sense objects in a certain way because of our application of a priori intuitions such as space and time, but we do not create these objects out of our imagination, as pure philosophical idealists would maintain. …
… What we think of as reality is a continous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of senses. …

When people are fanatically dedicated to political and religous faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it`s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

It`s not the technology that`s scary. It`s what it does to the relations between people, like callers and operators, that`s scary.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. … When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it`s a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That`s never the way.