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Letter "A" » ascetics
«This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy»
Author: Charles Gounod
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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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«Some offer their wealth, their austerity, and their practice of yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics with strict vows offer their study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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«The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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«The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.»
«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.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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