Asceticism Quote by Mason Cooley

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

— Augustus William Hare

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

— Ronald Rolheiser

“The only excuse for self indulgence is to learn that the objects we crave are overrated and don't satisfy our hunger, which is spiritual.”

— Henry Makow

“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

In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it,…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

— Richard M. Weaver

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

— Sophie Swetchine

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

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

— Juvenal

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

— Tom Robbins

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

— Christopher Fry