The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.