Best Quotes by Havelock Ellis (Top 10)
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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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.
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More Havelock Ellis Quotes
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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.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
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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.
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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.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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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.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
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...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
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Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
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The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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