Crossword-Solution: ASKESIS
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| TRAINING for an ideal (Gk.) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASKESIS (2)
This was a state of things which he could not in the least understand; but, again, though a member of a most hopeless class, living in the most hopeless surroundings that the world has ever seen, though he knew as much of the _askesis_ as of Chinese metaphysics; again, he had the grace not to deny the light that had begun to glimmer in his soul.
Philo, moreover, uses the word Askesis to describe what elsewhere had been described as bodily exercise.
Quotes with ASKESIS (2)
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
[The fairy tale] is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children could read gives them less of a false impression. I think what profess to be realistic stories for children are far more likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think that I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me: the school stories did. All stories in which…