Havelock Ellis Quotes

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and ...

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory ...

Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Man lives by imagination.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere tran...

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human p...

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of l...

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of ...

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympath...

In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with...

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and...

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could neve...

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in...

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single com...

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within th...

If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympath...

What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.

However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.