Asceticism Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities…
— Agnes Repplier
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
— Thomas Merton
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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently…
— Florence Nightingale
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The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life…
— Thomas Merton
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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that…
— Rudolf Rocker
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The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism…
— Rod Dreher
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Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of…
— Mary McCarthy
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PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith in the power…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the…
— Max Weber
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We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
— Paul Rand
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the…
— Aldous Huxley
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to…
— Os Guinness
Who Wrote These Asceticism Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Asceticism Quotes as follows: