Quote by Havelock Ellis Download Open image ““the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”” — Havelock Ellis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We are all lunatics... ‘tis only the manner of our asylum that differs.” — Andy Monk Copy Share Image
“Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.” — Marilyn Suttle Copy Share Image
“My mind was once diseased with the strange and heady ambition that I might somehow improve the world by living in it.” — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that the world is a very, very, large, insane asylum. We need only not get caught in others’ madness and stick… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.” — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth.” — Tyler Wigg-Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.” — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's in heaven.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
