“Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration”
which are much the same thing
Watteau in Venice (1994), tr. by Alberto Manguel of La Fête à Venise (1991)
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Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15
A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908)
Context: Of the three Universes of Experience familiar to us all, the first comprises all mere Ideas, those airy nothings to which the mind of poet, pure mathematician, or another might give local habitation and a name within that mind. Their very airy-nothingness, the fact that their Being consists in mere capability of getting thought, not in anybody's Actually thinking them, saves their Reality. The second Universe is that of the Brute Actuality of things and facts. I am confident that their Being consists in reactions against Brute forces, notwithstanding objections redoubtable until they are closely and fairly examined. The third Universe comprises everything whose being consists in active power to establish connections between different objects, especially between objects in different Universes. Such is everything which is essentially a Sign — not the mere body of the Sign, which is not essentially such, but, so to speak, the Sign's Soul, which has its Being in its power of serving as intermediary between its Object and a Mind.
As quoted in "The best quotes from Ralph Klein’s colourful public life" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-best-quotes-from-ralph-kleins-colourful-public-life/article10577310/, The Globe and Mail
p. 92
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
“Sex is as personally unique to individuals as it is universal.”
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
“We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.”
Art and Neurosis
The Liberal Imagination (1950)
“The special interest of Muslims in sex slavery was universal and widespread.”
K.S.Lai, The Muslim Slave System in Medieval India, Aditya Prakasha, New Delhi, 1994. http://voiceofdharma.org/books/mssmi/ch12.htm Quoted in Easy Meat, Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal by Peter McLoughlin.
Muslim Slave System in Medieval India (1994)
"The Gift of Water" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 200
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: Every object and being in the universe is
a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,
a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained
by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth
more shining, as though covered in satin.