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

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

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.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.