Havelock Ellis quotes Born: 02/02/1859 Died: 07/08/1939 Country: united_kingdom

• A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. (Havelock Ellis) [more/beliefs]
• All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. (Havelock Ellis) [time/time/revolution]
• Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? (Havelock Ellis) [dreams/more]
• There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether. (Havelock Ellis) [consumption/consumption/destroy]
• Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. (Havelock Ellis) [pain/death/life/life]
• 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. (Havelock Ellis) [relations/evolution]
• Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. (Havelock Ellis) [men/wisdom]
• 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. (Havelock Ellis) [life/art/more/more]
• Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. (Havelock Ellis) [jealousy/love]
• The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum. (Havelock Ellis)
• What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another. (Havelock Ellis) [civilization & progress/exchange]
• 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. (Havelock Ellis) [feeling/angel/darkness/fight]
• The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. (Havelock Ellis) [land]
• Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. (Havelock Ellis) [thinking/paper/money/poetry]
• The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. (Havelock Ellis) [suicide/system/point]
• 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. (Havelock Ellis) [dancing/life/life]
• However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. (Havelock Ellis) [foundations/life/life]
• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. (Havelock Ellis) [sun/reach/human]
• Every artist writes his own autobiography. (Havelock Ellis) [artist]
• There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it. (Havelock Ellis) [war]
• We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. (Havelock Ellis)
• At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. (Havelock Ellis)
• Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. (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. (Havelock Ellis)
• Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. (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. (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. (Havelock Ellis)
• In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way. (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. (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. (Havelock Ellis)
• It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. (Havelock Ellis)

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