Celibacy is the essence of vulgarity.
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Rome, or Reason?, p. 61Robert G. Ingersoll
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment (...) This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the essence, but not the essence itself.
Yehuda Ashlag
Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for “vulgarity”; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.
Leo Strauss
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
[T]here’s a lot to be said for celibacy, for the concentration of your mental and physical energy.
Camille Paglia
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