The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of read more

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the read more

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites read more

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing read more

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the read more

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.