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 ones own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Some forms of Indian asceticism, although not all, have a socio-political dimension and these cannot be marginalized as merely the wish to… — Romila Thapar 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
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have.… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton 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 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 strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“ 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
“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in… — Peter Sloterdijk 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 of 17? What might you have learned from a lifetime of pain? [...] From what I can tell, the wisest man in all these scriptures was the first person Buddha ever tried to teach…” quote by Mark X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/mark-x-50046_asceticism_ah-buddha-you-boastful-charlatan-you-may_3203888.jpg)
