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«It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.»
«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
| About:
Heroism
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«Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things»
«He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
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«But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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devotion, entered, hearted, meditate, renouncing, rescue, rescues, rescuing, swiftly
«People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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altogether, communicate, draw, organic, personally, renounce, renounces, renouncing, visually
«I serve my True Guru, and meditate on Him all day and night. Renouncing selfishness and conceit, I seek His Sanctuary, and speak sweet words to Him.»
«It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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«Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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