Asceticism Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asceticism Character Funny Inspirational Love Virtue
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.… — Alexis Carrel 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 has shown… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne 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 an ugly… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is… — Peter Sloterdijk 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 not asceticism;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
