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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 He also co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig, which was published in 2022.
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Books: more sayings
- “I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.”Manisha Koirala
- “Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.”Alastair Reynolds
- “When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. T…”Bryce Dallas Howard
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Books by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2000
Lila
1992