His expensive tastes in alcohol and cigarettes indicate that he is a sinful human character, very different from the ascetic ideals of Christian sainthood.

Third Treatise: "What do ascetic ideals mean?"

Given the extraordinary success of the ascetic ideal in imposing itself on our entire culture, what can we look to to oppose it?

(a) Science is in fact the "most recent and noblest form" of the ascetic ideal.

We know from their titles that at least two probably emphasized the ascetic ideal.

Drawing upon medieval ascetic ideals, Charny presents the life of the knight as a sort of passion of suffering and danger.

She had a profound influence upon her brothers with her adherence to an ascetic ideal.

During his youth he was attracted by ascetic and monastic ideals and joined the monastic community of Mount Athos.

Nietzsche advanced the thesis in his "The Genealogy of Morals" that the motive for search of truth in sciences is a kind of ascetic ideal.

Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier promoted him as an ideal of the good priest, highly spiritual, ascetic, and ready to sacrifice his life for the Christian faith.