To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. Thomas Jefferson
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Friedrich Nietzsche
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. Thomas J. Watson
