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Life Quotes by Havelock Ellis
- To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
- 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…
- Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
- 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…
- Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- 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…
- Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
- Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
- However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
- Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
- The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the…
- Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and…
- The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the…
- It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so…
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. --Havelock Ellis
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle