Ascetic Quotes

36 quotes by 30 authors

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in… — Charles Gounod
Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more… — Guru Nanak
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person… — Chanakya
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable… — Solomon Schechter
All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am… — E. M. Forster
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. — Gustave Flaubert
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right… — Marshall McLuhan
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. — Steven Pinker
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. — Bertrand Russell
I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish peopleâ€™s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the… — John O'Donohue
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something… — Nirmala Srivastava
Religions, which condemn thepleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. — Bertrand Russell

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