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
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“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
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
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
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 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
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
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
“Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What… — Mark X 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
“If asceticism is to he something different today than this pre-modern denial of autonomy and self-determination, it must he conceived of differently… — Dorothee Soelle 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
“ 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
“Other centuries sought safety in the union of reason and religion, research and asceticism. In their Universitas Litterarum, theology ruled. Among us… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against… — Tito Colliander 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
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
Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the… — Vyasa Copy Share Image
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria 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
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
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
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
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