Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.