Famous Quotes - Tags - Asceticism

  • Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities. More
  • Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives... More
  • Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. More
  • Dieting is our last tie with asceticism. More
  • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an... More
  • Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! More
  • Had he but spared his tongue and pen
    He might have rose like other men;
    But power was... More
  • He remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and... More
  • He teaches me to set my heart on nothing. He detaches my mind from friends and relations; and I... More
  • He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. More
  • If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He... More
  • In every ascetic morality man prays to one part of himself as God, and to do so he finds it... More
  • It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the... More
  • It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. More
  • Laurent, lock up my hair shirt and lacerating whip. More
  • Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. More
  • The ascetic makes a necessity out of virtue. More
  • The goods of fortune ... were never intended to be talked out of the world.—But as virtue and... More
  • The main motive for “nonattachment” is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above... More
  • The poor man! More
  • The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living... More
  • To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of... More
  • Whatever things a man gives up,
    By those he cannot suffer pain. More
  • Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant. More

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