Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

...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.

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

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.