3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis ‘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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis 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.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
