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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 He also co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig, which was published in 2022.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 truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”Robert M. Pirsig
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- “If you run from technology, it will chase you.”Robert M. Pirsig
- “Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”Robert M. Pirsig
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Books by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2000
Lila
1992