Abstinence Quote by Samuel Johnson

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but…

— Samuel Johnson

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes…

— Tim O'Reilly

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

— Margaret Atwood

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

— Quentin Crisp

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

— Jerome Kagan

What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

— Anonymous

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

— Anonymous

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in…

— Eric Temple Bell

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man…

— Max Stirner

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Appetite for food and sex is nature.

— Laozi