Robert Maynard Pirsig (b.1928) is an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
—Robert M. Pirsig
Topics: Failure
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
—Robert M. Pirsig
Topics: Self-improvement, Progress
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
—Robert M. Pirsig
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