Havelock Ellis Quotes
Most popular Havelock Ellis Quotes
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
To learn to dance is the most austere of disciplines.
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Charm is a woman's strength, just as strength is a man's charm.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Jealousy: that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
The greater the number of laws, the greater the number of offenses against them.
For the artist life is always a discipline, and no discipline can be without pain.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters, of man.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation of abstraction from life; it is life itself.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's natures with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the servants of man.
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.
