"What we call progress is the exchange of……" — Havelock Ellis
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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91 Quotes by Havelock Ellis
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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…
- Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make…
- In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with…
- The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and…
- Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to…
- 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…
- Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.