Best Havelock Ellis Quotes
- All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were… Accretions
- The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. Finds
- Where there is most labour there is not always most life. Inspirational
- There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and… Alcohol
- One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. Aught
- The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well… All
- Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons,… Complex
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. All
- Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Alive
- The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual… Civilization
- The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Asylum
- Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is… Abstraction
- Every artist writes his own autobiography. Architecture
- It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be… Dared
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Ago
- 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,… Become Capable
- The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Compared
- A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. Astray
- Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Comparable
- What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Another Nuisance
- Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? Dream
- The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. Children
- When love is suppressed hate takes its place. Best Love
- It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Base
- Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. Death
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