Renounce Quotes
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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
With this offer from the Far East I most likely would have had to renounce the World Cup. This was too high a price to pay.
Oliver Kahn -
They did everything they could to make her renounce her position.
Pierre Pettigrew -
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
Martin Heidegger -
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.
Gautama Buddha -
It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.
Benjamin Creme
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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
Ambrose -
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad -
We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.
Benjamin Creme -
Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
Shunryu Suzuki
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The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
Milovan Djilas -
We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
Gautama Buddha -
To renounce progress is as silly as to renounce the Earth's force of gravitation.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky -
It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them
Walter Hilton -
If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
Ajahn Chah
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Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?
Bisco Hatori -
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
Emil Cioran -
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
Albert Camus