This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their...
The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of those who have begun to give their existence forms and contents under ve...
(n.) The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.
The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the...
Patience is the highest asceticism.
In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is thinking more of a particular religio-metaphysically influenced dispositio...
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men