Asceticism Quote by Rudolf Rocker

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

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

“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

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the…

— Bertrand Russell

“...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

Religions, which condemn thepleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

— Bertrand Russell

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

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

— Ambrose Bierce

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing…

— Rod Dreher

“In his differentiation between asceticisms, Nietzsche posited a clear divide between the priestly varieties on the one side, illuminated by his vicious gaze, and…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

— William James

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

— Jacques Barzun