Sex Lies At The Root

Here, Where We Reach The Sphere Of Mathematics, We Are Among Processes Which Seem To Some The Most Inhuman Of All Human Activities And The Most Remote From Poetry. Yet It Is Here That The Artist Has The Fullest Scope Of His Imagination.

However Well Organised The Foundations Of Life May Be, Life Must Always Be Full Of Risks.

I Regard Sex As The Central Problem Of Life. And Now That The Problem Of Religion Has Practically Been Settled, And That The Problem Of Labor Has At Least Been Placed On A Practical Foundation, The Question Of Sex—with The Racial Questions That Rest On It—stands Before The Coming Generations As The Chief Problem For Solution. Sex Lies At The Root Of Life, And We Can Never Learn To Reverence Life Until We Know How To Understand Sex.

Pain And Death Are Part Of Life. To Reject Them Is To Reject Life Itself.

Dancing Is The Loftiest, The Most Moving, The Most Beautiful Of The Arts, Because It Is No Mere Translation Or Abstraction From Life; It Is Life Itself.