Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Recommended in 8 interviews and reading lists
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- Matthew A. CroninInterview
YES! A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Those are my favorites but again, there are so many wonderful books that are each great for their own reasons. The classics are classics for a reason. And I have some…
- Tyler KeevilInterview
I’d vouch for any of the ones I’ve mentioned so far. To those, I’d add Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. I’ve been thinking about it a lot because in places Pirsig ruminates on the divide he perceived in American society, culturally and politically, and potential ways that could be bridged…
- John KaagInterview
Oh! That is a great question. From Socrates to Sartre by T.S. Lavine is a lovely introduction and helped me enormously when I was first getting into the discipline. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig is also outstanding to get students to think philosophically.
- Phil WangInterview
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. It offers some really eye-opening stuff about the nature of values and quality.
- Beth KemptonInterview
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig. It’s an incredible book with a brilliant take on philosophy, but there was a section of it where I got lost the first time round. I revisited it about ten years later to see if it made more sense. It did, but I still think I need to read it again in another…
- David AllenInterview
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler; In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky; At the Gates of Spiritual Science by Rudolf Steiner; The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin; Brain Chains by Theo Compernolle; The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig and…
- Wim HofInterview
Scriptures and Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. Scriptures have many verses with great meanings, some books just draw your attention again and again.
- Paul WilliamsInterview
I have repeatedly recommended philosophical novels that ask deep questions, such as Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Gaarder’s Sophie’s World.
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