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Men Quotes by Havelock Ellis
- Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
- Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as…
- Man lives by imagination.
- 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…
- 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,…
- A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
- Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
- Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there…
- The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
- 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…
- 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…
- Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
- It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have…
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