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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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Marshall McLuhan |

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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Bertrand Russell |

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Friedrich Nietzsche |

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Friedrich Nietzsche |