Robert M. Pirsig
The Catalina Restaurant: Food with a delicious philosophy
...east coast. Pity, it all looked so pretty in the photographs. I'll leave you with this thought from Robert Pirsig: "Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a 30,000-page menu, and...
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James Verne Dusenberry
...Maintenance and . Dusenberry was probably instumental in introducing Pirsig to Native American philosophy. See also Pirsig's metaphysics of Quality. Born in Carl, Iowa on 7 April...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
...An Inquiry into Values is the first of Robert M. Pirsig's texts in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality . The 1974 book describes, in first person, a 17-day motorcycle journey...
Robert M. Pirsig
...his final retirement in 1993. Because he was a precocious child, with an I.Q. of 170 at age 9, Robert Pirsig skipped several grades and was enrolled at Blake School . In 1943, Pirsig...
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
...Ram Lila celebrations in India, the name of the female character, Lila, is accidental. "I asked Pirsig ... he said it was like 'lilaq,' and that, 'it was the unsubtlety of the lilac odour...
"Guinness Book of Records ". The title is an incongruous play on the title of the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel. In its introduction, Pirsig explains that, despite its title, "it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either."
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Down to the nuts and bolts
...Maunder. 'WE NEED a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashioned gumption," wrote Robert Pirsig in 1974's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This seminal book...
Gumption trap
...them from starting or continuing a project. The term has seen little literary use since being coined by Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance despite being an...
Happy Days: The Long and Short of It
...that life's panoply presents. - L.MichaelM Your thesis and conclusions map very closely with those of Robert Pirsig regarding morality (and value) in the relationship between our...
The Zen and now
...to drink. I'm on my own today. Those Zen riders - they're why I'm here. Robert Pirsig and his 11-year-old son, Chris, on Pirsig's old 28-horsepower, 305cc Honda Superhawk CB77, and...
Motorcycling
...have been built up around motorcycling. A motorcyclist wearing a full-face helmet with a visor Robert M. Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) was a paean...
'Shop Class as Soulcraft' Author Champions Do-It-Yourself Approach to Life
...on the 1974 classic, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values." Robert M. Pirsig's book was a sprawling philosophical search into what "quality" and "the good"...
Think Again: Fathers, Sons and Motorcycles
...she got it because something was missing from her life. And she bought it immediately after having read Robert Pirsig's "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into...
