Famous Quotes
7 Quotations with Asceticism.
- 1. Samuel Butler: For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -- tangible material prosperity i ...
- 2. George Orwell: The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is som ...
- 3. Jeremy Bentham: The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by ...
- 4. Mary McCarthy: The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is th ...
- 5. Katherine Anne Porter: They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the lo ...
- 6. Friedrich Nietzsche: We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil ...
- 7. Simon Vestdijk: Allowing for all the restrictions involved when trying to rank individual artist ...