Havelock Ellis
Psychologist
1859-02-02
Quotes by Havelock Ellis
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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.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
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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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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
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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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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
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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.
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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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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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The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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Beauty is the child of love.
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We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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Dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life?
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The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
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To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.
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