A Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.

Robert M. Pirsig

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Robert M. Pirsig
American - Philosopher
Born: September 6, 1928

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.

Robert M. Pirsig

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

Barry Lopez

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

Jim Carroll

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Philip Zimbardo

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have my idea of India... don't demean it.

Smriti Irani

Everyone in this country loves me I will not to do any role which will demean my name.

Rajpal Yadav

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Dogen

We've never set out to demean the Carling Cup.

Mike Phelan

I play a womaniser in 'Saala Khadoos,' but I do not demean women in any way.

R. Madhavan

One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.