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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 He also co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig, which was published in 2022.
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- “But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to imp…”Robert M. Pirsig
- “Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”Robert M. Pirsig
Belief: more sayings
- “Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impe…”Philip Roth
- “If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe…”Sean Carroll
- “You benefit from deep inner belief of having wins behind you, so you get to the table, and you know you're no…”Stephen Hendry
Explore Nature
- “Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the t…”Michael J. Fox
- “The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all hum…”Steven Pinker
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Books by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2000
Lila
1992