- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
- Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man lives by imagination.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dragon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
- Embrace
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- Nov 07, 2020