There Is Nothing More Fragile Than Civilization.

There Can Be No Sexual Love Without Lust; But, On The Other Hand, Until The Currents Of Lust In The Organism Have Been Irradiatedas To Affect Other Parts Of The Psychic Organism--at The Least The Affections And The Social Feelings--it Is Not Yet Sexual Love. Lust, The Specific Sexual Impulse, Is Indeed The Primary And Essential Element In This Synthesis, For It Alone Is Adequate To The End Of Reproduction, Not Only In Animals But In Men. But It Is Not Until Lust Is Expanded And Irradiated That It Develops Into The Exquisite And Enthralling Flower Of Love.

Even The Most Scientific Investigator In Science, The Most Thoroughgoing Positivist, Cannot Dispense With Fiction; He Must At Least Make Use Of Categories, And They Are Already Fictions, Analogical Fictions, Or Labels, Which Give Us The Same Pleasure As Children Receive When They Are Told The "name" Of A Thing.

Every Ist Writes His Own Autobiography.

It Is The Little Writer Rather Than The Great Writer Who Seems Never To Quote, And The Reason Is That He Is Never Really Doing Anything Else.

What We Call Progress Is The Exchange Of One Nuisance For Another Nuisance.