#2,530

Most of the things man “needs” are not necessary to him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 407

#2,398

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 387

#2,309

We will soon reach the point where civilization declines with each additional comfort.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

#1,776

Religious austerity fascinates; ethical severity repels.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,497

Souls become vitiated when bodies make themselves too comfortable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 252

#962

The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 173

#711

The modern Christian feels professionally obligated to act jovially and jokingly, to show his teeth in a cheerful grin, to profess a slavering friendliness, in order to prove to the unbeliever that Christianity is not a “somber” religion, a “pessimistic” doctrine, an “ascetic” morality.
The progressive Christian shakes our hand with the wide grin of a politician running for office.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 130