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.

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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the...

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the...

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side,...

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side,...

Man lives by imagination.

Man lives by imagination.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of...

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of...

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful...

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful...

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms...

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms...

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we...

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we...

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life...

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life...

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of...

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of...

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there...

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there...

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then...

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then...