12 Quotations with Ascetic.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite w ...
- 2. Marshall McLuhan: A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in so ...
- 3. Samuel Butler: For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -- tangible material prosperity i ...
- 4. Friedrich Nietzsche: In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he ...
- 5. Bertrand Russell: Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures ...
- 6. Friedrich Nietzsche: The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
- 7. George Orwell: The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is som ...
- 8. Jeremy Bentham: The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by ...
- 9. Mary McCarthy: The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is th ...
- 10. Katherine Anne Porter: They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the lo ...
- 11. Friedrich Nietzsche: We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil ...
- 12. Simon Vestdijk: Allowing for all the restrictions involved when trying to rank individual artist ...
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