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.
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
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.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
Man lives by imagination.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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.
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
