It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

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

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.