To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, that we may be able to die to ourselves in order to rise with Him, that he… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done. — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance. — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
