Robert M Pirsig
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THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS
A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better
Few books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man's search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the
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"The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment." Robert M. Pirsig wrote this unpublished line in 1962 while a patient at Downey Veteran Administration Hospital in Illinois, where he was admitted as a psychiatric patient. More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous, Pirsig had already caught hold of the central theme that would animate Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Quality, a concept loosely...
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From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought-"quality"-featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works.
"The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment."
Robert M. Pirsig wrote this unpublished line in 1962, while a patient at Downey Veteran Administration Hospital in Illinois,...