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.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.
What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher’s credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.
However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
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.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.