Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

...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.

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

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

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

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.