Civilization Quotes by Havelock Ellis

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

— Havelock Ellis

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

— Havelock Ellis

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

— Havelock Ellis

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

— Havelock Ellis

All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is…

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves…

— Havelock Ellis

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none…

— Havelock Ellis

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his…

— Havelock Ellis

“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

— Havelock Ellis

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is…

— Havelock Ellis

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts…

— Havelock Ellis

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

— Havelock Ellis