Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Amazon Description:
Arguably one of the most profoundly important essays ever written on the nature and significance of "quality" and definitely a necessary anodyne to the consequences of a modern world pathologically obsessed with quantity. Although set as a story of a cross-country trip on a motorcycle by a father and son, it is more nearly a journey through 2,000 years of Western philosophy. For some people, this has been a truly life-changing book.
Added on: Thursday, August 10 2006
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Tue Nov 14 22:06:48 UTC 2006
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Contributed by: Lainie Vansant.
Robert M. Pirsig said
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Contributed by: Lainie Vansant.
They're not too busy to be courteous. The hereness and nowness of things is something they know all about. It's the others, the ones who moved to the city years ago and their lost offspring who have all but forgotten it. The discovery was a real find.
Tue Nov 14 22:04:53 UTC 2006
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Contributed by: Lainie Vansant.
Robert M. Pirsig said
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Contributed by: Lainie Vansant.
The truth knocks on the door and you say “Go away, I'm looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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This book is more a novel than a handbook. But more an inquiry into a cohesive philosophy of life than a story. I read this book several years ago, but still think fondly of the new understanding I have of quality that I gleamed from this book.