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The analytic thought

Robert M. Pirsig – Collection 1
The analytic thought was last modified: August 5th, 2014 by quotemirror

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When analytic thought,
the knife, is applied to experience,
something is always killed
in the process.

Robert Maynard Pirsig
   

Robert M. Pirsig – Collection 1



Robert Maynard Pirsig

Robert Maynard Pirsig is an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991).
Pirsig was born on September 6, 1928 to Harriet Marie Sjobeck and Maynard Pirsig, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is of German and Swedish descent. His father was a University of Minnesota Law School (UMLS) graduate, and started teaching at the school in 1934. The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970. He resumed his career as a professor at the William Mitchell College of Law, where he remained until his final retirement in 1993.

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