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.

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The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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,...

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...

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Liberty is always unfinished business

Liberty is always unfinished business

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The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most...

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...

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

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

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as...

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as...

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the...

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the...

Man lives by imagination.

Man lives by imagination.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has...

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has...

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...

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.

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...

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...

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.