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The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels:
"A beautiful tour through the fundamentals of Western philosophy and the scenic coastline of Northern California. The reflections on sport and personal drive have relevance far beyond cycling, speaking to the roots of youthful exuberance and human det"
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Hibbard does a great job of offering an introductory philosophy course, a meditation on his time as a pro during a troubling era of the sport, and a reflection on what it all means from a recent ride along Highway " Read more of this review » |
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"Kažkada čia nutiko toks sutapimas (jei tokių, tikėsime, būna), kad Audrius Ožalas parašė, kad va, bus puiki knyga ir tuo pačiu Phi knygos reklamos pradėjo šmėsčioti tai šen, tai ten. Tai teko užsisakyti iš anksto ir dar vieną kitą bičiulį paraginti, "
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“need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.”
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“Entering into a relationship with the bike, I don’t just regard it with the disinterested detachment of an observer, I use it. And in return it takes me out of my head – re-enchanting life and putting me squarely back into the world of lived experience.”
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Thank you so much for your kind words Simon—it really means a great deal.
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“Like music, painting, or writing, cycling was an art, and becoming skillful was a pursuit with an ever-retreating horizon of proficiency which was shrouded in mystery.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings’ reconciliation with the fact of having a body.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
“Poetry in motion – there is no perfection, only life.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
“how through a combination of rigorous thinking and the self-discipline of being an athlete, I might give ‘style to my life’ and in the process avoid the sort of spiritual death that seems to befall so many long before their biological one.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
“Like music, painting, or writing, cycling was an art, and becoming skillful was a pursuit with an ever-retreating horizon of proficiency which was shrouded in mystery.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
“However, climbs like these don’t simply demarcate fitness, but also the cyclical passage of time. No matter how your life might change, that particular climb – your climb – remains a touchstone. As people are born and others die, you ride past the same features of the landscape – bearing witness to its changes just as much as yours: in early spring, leaves emerge from well-known trees only to wither in the gutter in the fall. While, during the last throes of winter, the brown hillsides gradually return to green – silently announcing that life has renewed itself and the worst of the cold and darkness has passed.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings’ reconciliation with the fact of having a body.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
“thinker who lauded the high mountains, and extolled the virtues of bravery, fresh air, and physical effort, there is simply no thinker better suited to the sport of cycling than Friedrich Nietzsche.”
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
― The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
