What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal quest… - Robert M. Pirsig

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What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,” a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance · April 10, 2009 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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