Socrates: When sex desire leaves you, it’s like being freed from
bondage to a madman.
Herbert Spencer: Sexual relations unfavorable to the rearing of
offspring must tend towards degradation.
Spinoza: Sooner than to promote love, lust readily passes into
hate.
Swedenborg: In the progress of marriage among those who are
spiritual, the love of sex is exterminated.
The spiritual man feels spiritual joy which is
superior to material pleasure, exceeding it a thousand times.
Tagore: As long as our desires are in conflict with the
universal law we suffer pain.
“The Talmud”: There is a small organ in the human body which is
always hungry if one tries to satisfy it, and always satisfied if
one starves it. “The Talmud”
Tertulian, “Exhortation to Chastity”: What is profitable for a
time should always be practiced. Then it will always be
profitable. Shall one be willing only to abstain from what is
ordinarily deemed a pleasure for the sake of a victory in
wrestling and the like and be incapable of a similar abstinence
for the sake of the noblest of victories? There are enough
sexual stoics in the world to prove by experience that continence
is not only possible but also practical.
Thoreau: A man is rich in proportion to the number of things
which he can afford to let alone.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify.
Simplify.
Tolstoy: Sexual activity weakens man in his most essential
aspect: spiritual expression.
Our animal desires have hidden us from our true life.
The real misery of man is that he self-obscured, lost in the
midst of his own desires.
C.J. Van Vliet, The Coiled Serpent: Even where the tendency to a
habit is inborn it can be overcome, provided the mind begins to
see that the habit is undesirable. The first requirement for
sexual normalcy is, therefore, a mental recognition that the
present sexual habits of the race are abnormal. Then the
individual will either avoid to become addicted–or, if already
an addict, will gradually break away from those habits.
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