List Of Asceticism Quotes

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.

Fie On The Eloquence That Leaves Us Craving Itself, Not Things!

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.

Nothing Is Easier Than To Give Christian Asceticism A Socialist Tinge.

I Never Did Calligraphy... But Handwriting Is An Entirely Different Kind Of Thing. It's Part Of The Syndrome Of Modernism... It's Part Of That Asceticism.

The Ascetic Makes A Necessity Of Virtue.

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!

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.

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.

Renounce All Things, And Thou Shalt Find All Things; Give Up Thy Lust, And Thou Shalt Find Rest.

Asceticism May Be A Mere Expression Of Organic Hardihood, Disgusted With Too Much Ease.

The Irony Is That In Our Decades, The Combination Of Rationalism, Asceticism, And Individualism (the So-called Protestant Ethic) Has Produced Precisely The System Of Boondoggling, Luxury-consumption, And Status.