Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore,… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule.… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
