Asceticism Quotes

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh ...

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Patience is the highest asceticism.

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's d...

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to...

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternati...