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Havelock Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
— Havelock Ellis art
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 life
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
— Havelock Ellis love
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
— Havelock Ellis beauty
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
— Havelock Ellis change
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.
— Havelock Ellis life
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.
— Havelock Ellis women
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 time
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
— Havelock Ellis time
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 happiness
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
— Havelock Ellis optimism
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 man
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
— Havelock Ellis war
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
— Havelock Ellis words
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
— Havelock Ellis religion
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 education
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
— Havelock Ellis art
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.
— Havelock Ellis men
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
— Havelock Ellis music
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
— Havelock Ellis love
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
— Havelock Ellis poetry
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
— Havelock Ellis lies
Man lives by imagination.
— Havelock Ellis imagination
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
— Havelock Ellis philosophy
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
— Havelock Ellis belief

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