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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 He also co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig, which was published in 2022.
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- “Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”Robert M. Pirsig
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Purpose: more sayings
- “Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered he…”Thomas Aquinas
- “To see time and life correctly , you must begin to access life as seconds, as minutes and as hours.”Sunday Adelaja
- “Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the…”Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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Books by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2000
Lila
1992