Havelock Ellis

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.

age


Havelock Ellis

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.

architecture


Havelock Ellis

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

art


Havelock Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

art


Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

beauty


Havelock Ellis

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

change


Havelock Ellis

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

death


Havelock Ellis

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

dreams


Havelock Ellis

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

faith


Havelock Ellis

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.

family


Havelock Ellis

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.

happiness


Havelock Ellis

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.

home


Havelock Ellis

Man lives by imagination.

imagination


Havelock Ellis

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

jealousy


Havelock Ellis

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.

knowledge


Havelock Ellis

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.

knowledge


Havelock Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

life


Havelock Ellis

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.

men


Havelock Ellis

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

money


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