Havelock Ellis
Quotations
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“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
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“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
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“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.” -Havelock Ellis
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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.” -Havelock Ellis
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“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
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“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.” -Havelock Ellis
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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.” -Havelock Ellis
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“In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.” -Havelock Ellis
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“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.” -Havelock Ellis
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“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
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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.” -Havelock Ellis
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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.” -Havelock Ellis
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“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
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“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.” -Havelock Ellis
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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.” -Havelock Ellis
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“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
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” -Havelock Ellis
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“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
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“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
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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.” -Havelock Ellis
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“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
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“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.” -Havelock Ellis
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“For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.” -Havelock Ellis
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“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?” -Havelock Ellis
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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” -Havelock Ellis
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“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.” -Havelock Ellis
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“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” -Havelock Ellis
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“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
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“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.” -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. – Havelock Ellis
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