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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 He also co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig, which was published in 2022.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 only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”Robert M. Pirsig
- “I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.”Robert M. Pirsig
- “For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”Robert M. Pirsig
- “What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but o…”Robert M. Pirsig
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- “In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”Adam Smith
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Books by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2000
Lila
1992