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Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.




Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.




Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.




Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm."

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach."

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command."

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.




Havelock Ellis Quotes: "No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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 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 Quotes: "Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible."

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Imagination is a poor substitute for experience."

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way"

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 Quotes: "The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Liberty is always unfinished business"

Liberty is always unfinished business



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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 greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest."

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray."

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide."

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Every artist writes his own autobiography."

Every artist writes his own autobiography.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.



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."

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: "The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.



Havelock Ellis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together."

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: "The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.