Asceticism Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

— Jacques Barzun

Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown…

— Rudolf Rocker

“...We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the…

— Audre Lorde

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its…

— Agnes Repplier

“Asceticism is an antidote to the poison of self-centeredness common in our culture, which teaches us that satisfying our own desires is the key…

— Rob Dreher

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life…

— Anais Nin

“By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the…

— Jeremy Bentham

I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful;…

— Frederick Lenz

“The Way of the Ascetics”

— St Shenouda Monastery

“The stereotype of the pale, emaciated ascetic who has developed total control of all his reactions and responses does not fit our description of…

— William A. Barry

“People fear sensuality simply because they don't know its actual purpose. But, please, don't be ignorant my friend: Sensuality was NOT intended to make…

— Lebo Grand

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

— Roger Chamberlain