The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“Whoever approaches these Olympians with another religion in his heart, searching among them for moral elevation, even for sanctity, for disincarnate spirituality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is always a danger that in our asceticism we shall be tempted to imitate the sufferings of Christ. This is a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
![“[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor…” quote by Peter Sloterdijk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe0/peter-sloterdijk-8761_asceticism_nietzsche-s-questions-transcend-but-wher_722999.png)
