The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.