Havelock Ellis quotes - page 2

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. (Havelock Ellis)
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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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.
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Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. (Havelock Ellis)
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
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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.
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. (Havelock Ellis)
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
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