Asceticism Quotes
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Asceticism Quotes & Sayings
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It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.
— Tito Colliander
Patience is the highest asceticism.
— Gautama Buddha
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men
— Fernando Pessoa
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like
— Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.
Asceticism means that a man resolves to live as a man.
— Romano Guardini
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
— George Bernard Shaw
Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
— Max Weber
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
— Tito Colliander
Faith comes not through pondering but through action.
— Tito Colliander
[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.
— Tito Colliander
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.
— Rama Swami
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
— Paul Evdokimov
It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.
— St.Athanasius
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
— Mason Cooley
Asceticism was not necessary for holiness.
— James Carroll
Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.
— Mason Cooley
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
— William James
Liberty coincides with heroism. It is the asceticism of the great man, the bow bent to the breaking-point.
— Albert Camus
What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich?
— Upton Sinclair
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
only a foolish asceticism, usually vicarious, makes us continue to insist on work in excessive quantities now that the need no longer exists.
— Bertrand Russell
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
— Thomas A Kempis
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
— Mason Cooley
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.
— Tito Colliander
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
— Michel De Montaigne