We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot 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
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
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
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
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his… — Neil T Anderson 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
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
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only… — John Newton Copy Share Image
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot 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 drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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