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| Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The main motive for ''nonattachment'' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. | Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker |
| The principle of ASCETICISM never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. | Jeremy Bentham | 1748-1832, British Philosopher, Jurist, Political Theorist |
| 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. | Katherine Anne Porter | 1890-1980, American short-story Writer, Novelist |
| A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
