Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction,… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
