If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For most 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
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad… — Aleksander Kwasniewski Copy Share Image
