The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

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 is always how he has more or less acted it.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.