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

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.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.