This strange, exotic, ascetic view was adopted by some philosophers, and especially by the Pythagoreans, and so transmitted to Plato.
Speusippus took the ascetic view that the good is a perfect condition of neutrality between two contrary evils, pain and pleasure.
Averroes teaches that it is possible for the passive reason to unite itself with the Active Reason, and that this union may be attained or prepared for by ascetic purification and study.
Very soon--it is the usual experience of ascetic mystics--he was encouraged by rapturous visions.
Many a solitary ascetic has prayed in the words of the 73rd Psalm: "Whom have I in heaven but Thee?
Is it not plain that the poet of Nature amid the Cumberland hills, the Spanish ascetic in his cell, and the Platonic philosopher in his library or lecture-room, have been climbing the same mountain from different sides?
The ascetic element in Wordsworth's ethics should by no means be forgotten by those who envy his brave and unruffled outlook upon life.
She was too apt to consider, that allowing herself a holiday was a dereliction of duty, and to refuse herself the necessary change, from something of an over-ascetic spirit, betokening a loss of healthy balance in either body or mind.
We may take this, however, as a casual lapse into the common form of moralists of ascetic ages.
In substance the System of Nature is essentially a protest against ascetic and quietist ideals.
At noon the stone-walled house remained cool; mild air entered at the screenless window openings, stirring the wall map of Adelphi and the three of Paul's paintings which were the only decorations Wright allowed in thisascetic shelter.
After his elevation to the arch-episcopal chair he gave the example of what he believed to be the true clerical life by following in the most literal way the maxims of St. Francis about self-denial, devotion, and ascetic life.
He laid aside his hermit's garb, and with it his ascetic practices; but he believed it to be his duty to renounce all property and live absolutely poor.
He lived an openly ascetic life, that he might abound in charity.
He forbade very rightly the follies of ascetic piety, when the discipline of the Exercises had been accomplished; it was only repeated when energies flagged or symptoms of insubordination appeared.
You were not a sexless ascetic who preached a mere neutral goodness.
Jewish mysticism, starting as an ascetic corrective to the conventional hedonism, lost its ascetic character and degenerated into licentiousness.
It is one of the few ascetic ceremonies in the Jewish Calendar as known to most Jews.
This bishop was an estimable man, and possessed such an unusual disposition that, although ascetic himself, he was tolerant to others.
We enter, and think we can see the dark ascetic bishop kneeling in his little stone study, for hither when blind, in his old age, he was led daily for prayer.
I do not dislike the little conceits here,” I replied; “it shows that the ascetic monks had something fresh and green left in them.
A hard look swept across the Capuchin's pale, ascetic face.
The young men intended for the pastoral office were taught the learning and trained in the ascetic discipline of these monastic schools.
The life of these greater monasteries was led according to a strict and ascetic rule.
The people in the twelfth century had a great zeal for religion of an ascetic type, and amidst the violence and oppression of the times there was a great deal of religious feeling of an exalted character, and many a saintly life.
The ascetic spirit had been revived in Italy and France by Odo of Clugny, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and others, who had founded new orders of the Benedictine and Augustinian rules.
But he took her aside, and pressed upon her the claims of the ascetic life with such fervour that she instantly consented to renounce the world with him.
Or, if thou choosest, let him be crowned with success through the ascetic merits of both of us.
He should seek the refuge of Brahmanas crowned with ascetic success even as men seek the refuge or loudly rivers generated by the rain-water collected within mountain lakes.
Thus said those high-souled Rishis and Yatis conversant with the truths of all things, having ascertained by their ascetic power that king Nahusha had not been intentionally guilty of that sin.
Bowing unto the boon-giving Mahadeva and to also his spouse the goddess Uma, the great ascetic Usanas, endued with superior intelligence, proceeded to the place he chose.
Having studied all the Vedas together with all their mysteries and abstracts, as also all the histories and the science of government, O puissant monarch, the greatascetic returned home, after giving his preceptor the tuition fee.
In a certain large forest uninhabited by human beings, there lived an ascetic upon fruit and roots observing rigid vows, and with his senses under control.
Compare the Byzantine pictures of Christ with those of the Italian painters,--the formerascetic and emaciated, the latter types of physical well-being.
But that did not satisfy the ascetic James, who retired to his corner grumbling.
But he had very little of the ascetic about him, and was as far removed from the patient, self-denying Anglican clergy of the slum districts in the East End, as four pounds of butter is from four o'clock.
No one knew when the tallascetic figure would appear among them with a strange appropriateness.
Nor, again, do they involve that monstrous paradox of all ascetic systems, that human nature is radically evil and that only that is good in us which contradicts our natural appetites and instincts.
Ku Sui was standing motionless above him, and through the open face-plate of the Eurasian's helmet Ban could see him gazing at Hawk Carse with a strange, faint smile on his beautifully chiselled, ascetic face.
He drew at the cigarro, and the smoke wreathed gently around his ascetic saffron face.
The asceticfeatures were in repose, the eyelids closed, their long black lashes lying against the delicate saffron of the skin.
He was born in 1802 in Hungary, the son of a proud and vicious aristocrat, and of a melancholy, sensitive, and ascetic mother.
The ascetic called everything beautiful in the world the work of Satan: Francis brought about a true revolution by calling it the work of God, praising and thanking God for it.
The followers of an ascetic religion have more or less belief in judgments,--in retributive evils, arbitrarily inflicted.
The superstitions of theascetic arise from the spirit of fear; those of the heathen arise perhaps equally from the spirit of love and the spirit of fear.
It seems as if the portents which present themselves toascetic minds must necessarily be of evil, since the only good which their imaginations admit is supposed to be secured by grace, and by acts of service or self-denial.
Under ascetic forms, what grossness there is will be partially concealed; but there will be no nearer an approach to simplicity than under the licentious.
The superstitions of the ascetic are scarcely fewer or more moderate than those of the licentious form of religion; the chief difference between the two lies in the spirit from which they emanate.
The Pharisees of old need but be cited to show why; and there is a set of people in the Society Islands now who seem to be spiritually descended from the ascetic priests of Judaism.
It matters not that the licentious and the ascetic parties each boast of having attained this consummation,--the one under the name of ease, and the other of simplicity.
An ascetic religion, too, inflicts personal and mutual wrongs which could never be endured among a people who agree to govern one another.
Yet this virtue of charity, on its subtler and more metaphysical side, belongs to the spirit of redemption, to that ascetic and quasi-Buddhistic element in Christianity to which we shall presently revert.
Under stress, it becomesascetic and requires a mythology.
Sidenote: Under stress, it becomes ascetic and requires a mythology.
If art is excluded altogether or given only a trivial rôle, perhaps as a necessary relaxation, we feel at once that a philosophy so judging human arts is ascetic or post-rational.
Even the suicide trembles and the ascetic feels the stings of the flesh.
In his youth he studied under Macarius of Edessa, and after receiving baptism he adopted a strictly ascetic life, and devoted himself with zeal to the continual study of scripture.
Bithynia at the age of seventy-four, without ever having married (this touch may be due to an ascetic feeling current already in the 2nd century).
