Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“...Death is often as cruel in his asceticism as he is in his greed.” — Elisabeth Wheatley Copy Share Image
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
“an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow.” — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease. — William James Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Looking out the window of a large women's monastery after Divine Liturgy, my friend saw a few nuns walking toward the woods… — Constantina R. Palmer Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“ OLYMPAS: There is one doubt. When souls attain Such an unimagined gain Shall not others mark them, wise Beyond mere mortal… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In his differentiation between asceticisms, Nietzsche posited a clear divide between the priestly varieties on the one side, illuminated by his vicious… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds "jiva" (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with "ajiva" (the lifeless, material aspect… — Mark X Copy Share Image
“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
