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“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.”
“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
“Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.”
“The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.”
“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.”
“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 Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.”
“No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.”
“When love is suppressed hate takes its place.”
“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.”
“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”
“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
“What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.”
“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.”