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Havelock Ellis Quotes

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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... Had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) Birth control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) Man lives by imagination  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces  (Havelock Ellis Quotes) 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  (Havelock Ellis Quotes)
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