Havelock Ellis Quotes

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• Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
• To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
• We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
• 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…
• In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
• The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair…
• Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
• It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
• Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
• The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of…
• Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
• Liberty is always unfinished business
• So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense…
• Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by…
• Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as…
• The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
• It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing…
• A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
• Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

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