Havelock Ellis quotes

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. (Havelock Ellis)
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. (Havelock Ellis)
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
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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.
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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.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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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.
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The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. (Havelock Ellis)
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
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