Quotes by Asceticism Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. Ali ibn Abi Talib asceticism celebration islamic The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness. Chanakya cuckoos asceticism husband To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.' Dietrich Bonhoeffer asceticism denial self Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions. Elizabeth Cady Stanton asceticism doctrine atheism The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche asceticism virtue Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists. Gilbert K. Chesterton asceticism fighting past Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others. Guru Nanak asceticism quality important Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those! Friedrich Nietzsche asceticism sensual thinking If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. Jean Cocteau asceticism height comfort The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. Jeremy Bentham asceticism earth religion American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. Joseph McCarthy asceticism nerves cities Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Karl Marx asceticism christian giving They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Katherine Anne Porter asceticism suffering giving 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 want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable. Malcolm Muggeridge asceticism degrees goes-on It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley asceticism cutting monsters Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities. Mason Cooley celibacy asceticism incapacity Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant. Mason Cooley asceticism self would-be Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. Mason Cooley asceticism peculiar way Dieting is our last tie with asceticism. Mason Cooley asceticism dieting ties Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! Michel de Montaigne asceticism craving wisdom 12»