Renounce Quotes

175 quotes by 135 authors

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. — Antonio Banderas
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. — Theodor Adorno
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. — Ambrose Bierce
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that… — Andre Breton
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. — Albert Camus
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute… — Alexis Carrel
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more… — Chogyam Trungpa
One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach… — Swami Vivekananda
Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy… — Adolf Hitler
I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the… — Adolf Hitler
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good.… — Sivananda
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… — Charles Caleb Colton
I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible.… — Rajneesh
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand… — Samuel Adams
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins

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