The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place..

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom..

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing..

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes..

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities..

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success..

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry..

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength….

Every artist writes his own autobiography..

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life..

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw..

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remot….

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is t….

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the….

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling..

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once ….

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy..

Man lives by imagination..

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflict….

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that….