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About Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher
Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. He is best known for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, published in 1974, and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, published in 1991. His work is shaped by philosophical questions about values, morals, and quality. He also co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig, which was published in 2022.
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- “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”Robert M. Pirsig
- “For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.”Robert M. Pirsig
- “Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the a…”Robert M. Pirsig
- “The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those towar…”Robert M. Pirsig
Writing: more sayings
- “It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of hi…”Dorothy L. Sayers
- “Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at…”Zack Love
- “I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye o…”Nancy Farmer
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Books by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2000
Lila
1992