The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

People always make war when they say they love peace.