Quotes from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

"...The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is."

"...Plato finds it necessary to separate, for example, 'horseness' from 'horse', and to say that horseness is real and fixed and true and unmoving, while the horse is a mere, unimportant, transitory phenomenon. Horseness is pure Idea. The horse that one sees is a collection of changing Appearences, a horse that can flux and move around all it wants to, and even die on the spot all without disturbing horseness, which is the Immortal Principle and can go on forever in the path of the Gods of old."

"...[The Greeks] saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes."