Animals Quote by Norman O. Brown

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

“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

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is thinking more…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life for the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course…

— Selma Fraiberg

“When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious”

— Rochelle Magee

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

— Fanny Lewald

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously…

— Aleister Crowley

When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push…

— Duane Elgin

I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this…

— Clara Barton

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends…

— Catherine Wilson