The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I beg you to abnegate me because, I don’t have the strength to renounce you.” — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.” — Timothy Snyder 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
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it… — Rex Stout 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
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
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939… — Donald Saunders Copy Share Image
In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most… — Rajneesh 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
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
