The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

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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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened...

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened...

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...

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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.

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...

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...

Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is...

Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is...

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find...

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find...

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

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...

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.

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.

It all bottomed out with the Renaissance Period. Ren-ais-sance. Thats Renaissance, FRENCH for re-birth. Re-nais-sance....

It all bottomed out with the Renaissance Period. Ren-ais-sance. Thats Renaissance, FRENCH for re-birth. Re-nais-sance....

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.