The solutions all are simple — after you have arrived at th… - Robert M. Pirsig

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The solutions all are simple — after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values · April 25, 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Robert Maynard Pirsig (6 September 1928 – 24 April 2017) was an American philosopher and novelist, most famous for his novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in which he proposed what has become known as his Metaphysics of Quality (MoQ).

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Alternative Names: Robert Maynard Pirsig • Robert Pirsig

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