All 3 Uses of
ascetic
in
Man And Superman
- Don Juan himself is almost ascetic in his desire to avoid that misunderstanding; and so my attempt to bring him up to date by launching him as a modern Englishman into a modern English environment has produced a figure superficially quite unlike the hero of Mozart.†
Chpt Ded.
- Romance and Asceticism ... are equally unreal in the great Philistine world.
Chpt Ded. *asceticism = the practice of self-denial (especially to encourage spiritual growth)
- And that is why our scriptures and other art works, when they deal with love, turn from honest attempts at science in physics to romantic nonsense, erotic ecstasy, or the stern asceticism of satiety ("the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" said William Blake; for "you never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough").†
Chpt Ded.
Definition:
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(ascetic) someone who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth); or relating to such self-denial
or:
severely plain (without decoration)