#renounce

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#errors #experience #light #our #renounce

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#article #categorical #central #constitution #declare

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#capable #cause #could #did #emotions

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#citizen #citizenship #country #i #i love

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#give #his #like #man #pleasures

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. ↗

— King Edward VIII

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I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. ↗

— David Mallet

#courted #deeds #deserve #despises #fame