The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure. — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
“...We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I have been against all that is ascetic; even that word was not known to me in those days, but I could… — Osho 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
“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
“The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
