Asceticism Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asceticism Craving Eloquence Wisdom
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There is a discrepancy between our craving and the world we live in, between our expectations and the way things are. We want the… — Rupert Gethin Copy Share Image
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. — Swami Sivananda Copy Share Image
“People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really… — Lorne Ladner Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James Copy Share Image
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human. — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
“If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it might satisfy… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
